The purpose of this work is to minimize off-grid Diesel generation costs by best choosing the number, size and dispatch schedule of the generators comprising the power plant. The mathematical formulation of the optimization problem takes into account: sizedependent full-and part-load fuel consumption; size dependent investment costs; sizeand dispatch-dependent operational and maintenance costs....

Hybrid systems present a new dimension to the time correlation of intermittent renewable energy sources. The paper considers the daily energy consumption variations for winter and summer weekdays and weekends in order to compare the corresponding fuel costs and evaluate the operational efficiency of the hybrid system for a 24-h period. Previous studies have assumed a fixed load and uniform dail...

due to consuming about 50%-80% of health resources, hospitals are the greatest and costly operational units in iranian health system. so allocation of resources specially human and space resources as the most expensive ones is really important for further controlling of costs, analysis of costs and making suitable policies for increasing the profitability and allocation of resources and improve...

Our value analysis and decision-making framework is based upon 3 population-level comparisons: operational factors/ implementability, benefits, and costs/complications. We used the framework to scope new projects, to better target clinical recommendations, and to evaluate pathways postimplementation. From April through December 2015, we used this framework to prospectively analyze 19 pathway im...

This paper presents a post-processing extension to a Monte-Carlo based generation planning tool in order to assess the short-term operational implications of different possible future generation portfolios. This extension involves running promising portfolios through a year of economic dispatch at 30 minute intervals whilst considering operational constraints and associated costs including mini...