TY - GEN
T1 - A mathematical programming approach to reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the petroleum refning industry
AU - Dbaberi, Noura Al
AU - Diabat, Ali
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - While fossil fuels supplied around 90% of the developed world's energy in 2008, the resulting CO2 emissions took a tremendous toll on the environment. As power plants, factories, and oil refineries are the largest CO2 emitters, it is vital to fmd greener ways to extract, refme and utilize fossil fuels. In this paper, we introduce a nonlinear mixed-integer programming model which is intended to help decision makers evaluate the operational cost of different alternatives for reducing CO2 emissions at petroleum refmeries such as powering the refineries using renewable energy sources. To validate our model, we solve several small-size instances of the problem using the BARON solver in GAMS.
AB - While fossil fuels supplied around 90% of the developed world's energy in 2008, the resulting CO2 emissions took a tremendous toll on the environment. As power plants, factories, and oil refineries are the largest CO2 emitters, it is vital to fmd greener ways to extract, refme and utilize fossil fuels. In this paper, we introduce a nonlinear mixed-integer programming model which is intended to help decision makers evaluate the operational cost of different alternatives for reducing CO2 emissions at petroleum refmeries such as powering the refineries using renewable energy sources. To validate our model, we solve several small-size instances of the problem using the BARON solver in GAMS.
KW - Carbon emissions
KW - Nonlinear programming
KW - Oil refinery
KW - Renewable energy
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77956597584
SN - 9781424465200
T3 - 2010 2nd International Conference on Engineering System Management and Applications, ICESMA 2010
BT - 2010 2nd International Conference on Engineering System Management and Applications, ICESMA 2010
T2 - 2010 2nd International Conference on Engineering System Management and Applications, ICESMA 2010
Y2 - 30 March 2010 through 1 April 2010
ER -