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Albemarle Atacama — Parametric Model
SysML parametric model of Albemarle’s Salar de Atacama lithium operation. Ten constraint blocks propagate environmental inputs through regulatory, operational, and strategic domains to financial outcomes. Drag any slider to trace sensitivity; all values update live. Or engage Story Mode to watch the system evolve through narrated scenarios.
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Primary leverage chain · Read left → right
DLE adoption ↑ → Water stress ↓ → Reg. pressure ↓ → Supply reliability ↑ + OpEx ↓ → Env. perf. ↑ → Verified PCF ↑ → OEM eligibility ↑ → Contracts ↑ → Revenue ↑
Key risk: High a and b coefficients (strong reg. response to water stress and community pressure) collapse supply reliability and raise OpEx simultaneously — a dual financial hit with no buffer unless DLE adoption is already high. Try the “Regulatory crackdown” preset to see the effect, or engage Story Mode for the narrated version.
Cross-model linkage: Parametric outputs feed into State Machine guard conditions (C1 threshold → T2 trigger; C3 output → T4 trigger; C8 output → T7 condition) and are consistent with CLD B1 (extraction → water stress → reg. → restrictiveness → extraction) and R1 (DLE → PCF → eligibility → contracts → revenue → investment).
«valueProperty» — variable
«constraint» — equation block
port — binding endpoint
data flow (solid)
cross-column dependency (dashed)