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This page updated September 14, 2006
| In accordance with California Health and Safety Code Sections 39700-39706,
the Air Resources Board conducts a comprehensive program of research into the causes, effects, and possible solutions
to the air pollution problem in California. The objective of the research program is to provide timely scientific
and technical information needed for public policy decisions that will allow the Board and local districts
to implement an effective air pollution control program in California. |
| To carry out this goal, the Board sponsors contracted research in
specific areas of interest. Request for Proposals (RFP) issued by the Research Division are circulated to a list
serve of interested individuals. If you would like to subscribe to the list serve for RFPs
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OPEN REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS
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| 07-315 |
The objective of this study is to define the climate change
industry and characterize its current status and assess its
relative importance to the California economy today and in the
future. The Contractor should also identify marker drivers that
can help in the further development and growth of the industry in
California. The information obtained from this study will assist
the Air Resources Board (ARB) and other State agencies that are
in charge of implementing climate initiatives in assessing the
positive impacts of their regulatory actions.
Bid Submittal Deadline: 10/16/07 at 3:00 PM
For additional information please click on the link below and
type 07-315 as the contract number.
http://www.cscr.dgs.ca.gov/cscr/ |
| 07-314 |
The objective of this research is to develop a
California-specific intermodal freight transport model to
describe the movement of goods into California's ports and
through California's highway and rail systems. Specifically,
this project is intended to develop a Geographic Information
System (GIS) compatible model system for 1) quantifying
emissions, including criteria pollutants and greenhouse gases,
from land-side and water-side freight transport alternatives, 2)
evaluating tradeoffs among emissions, cost, and travel time for
moving freight between two points, and 3) identifying a
multi-criteria optimization framework by analyzing preferred
routing and tradeoffs under both existing and alternate
transportation scenarios.
Bid Submittal Deadline: 11/5/2007 3:00 PM
For additional information please click on the link below and
type 07-314 as the contract number.
http://www.cscr.dgs.ca.gov/cscr/ |
| 07-313 |
The objective of this project will be quantify emission rates
(during production and use), application growth rates, chemical
substitution rates, banks, and end-of-life disposal emissions
(if applicable) for each high global warming potential (GWP)
greenhouse gas (GHG) in each application.
The deliverables of the proposed project include a detailed
bottom-up inventory for high GWP GHGs in California by use
category, including associated equipment numbers where
applicable. The Contractor will be required to propose a
methodology for generating the inventory that could include data
gathering from trade associations as well as surveying the
sectors that employ high GWP GHGs in various applications.
Bid Submittal Deadline: 10/17/2007 at 3:00 PM
For additional information please click on the link below and
type 07-313 as the contract number.
http://www.cscr.dgs.ca.gov/cscr/ |
| 07-312 |
The objective of the project will be to quantify the populations
of foams in California by the types of blowing agents utilized
(ODSs, HFCs, hydrocarbons, CO2, others) and a detailed
accounting of the amount of foam stock by product category
(e.g., small appliance refrigeration) including both the
associated banks and annual emissions. Specifically, for each
application, the emissions rates (during foam production,
installation, and lifetime), turnover rates, end-of-life
disposal emissions, sector growth rates, refrigerant
substitution rates, and banks will be generated. The timescales
associated with emissions from foams (during lifetimes and after
disposal) will be examined, as well as the effect of disposal
method (shredding, landfilling, incineration) on greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions.
Mitigation strategies will be examined in terms of costs and
benefits as well as life cycle climate performance (LCCP),
examples of which include the following: emissions reductions
associated with foam production, installation, and lifetimes;
low-global warming potential (GWP) blowing agents and
not-in-kind (NIK) alternatives to high-GWP foam applications;
and end-of-life recovery and thermal destruction of high-GWP
foams. Emissions scenarios based on business-as-usual (BAU) as
well as those incorporating various control strategies will be
examined in the year 2020 to estimate possible CO2-equivalent
(CO2E) GHG reductions and the associated costs, based on LCCP.
The deliverables of the proposed project include a detailed
bottom-up inventory for high-GWP GHG foam-blowing agents in
California reflecting the existing stock as well as current and
projected emissions for 2020; imports, plus
manufacturing/production/use in California, as well as exports
out of state will be accounted for in the inventory. The
contractor will be required to propose a methodology for
generating the inventory that could include data gathering from
trade associations as well as surveying the sectors that employ
high-GWP GHG foams in various applications.
Bid Submittal Deadline: 11/7/2007 at 3:00 PM
For additional information please click on the link below and
type 07-312 as the contract number.
http://www.cscr.dgs.ca.gov/cscr/ |
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For more information on Request for Proposals please contact
Emma Plasencia
at (916) 323-1524 or email at eplasenc@arb.ca.gov.
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