Choosing a location for a power plant site is a complex task that involves evaluation of multiple factors, which should satisfy a number of economic and environmental requirements. The main aim of this study is to determine the best possible candidates for thermal power plant sites using Multi-criteria Evaluation and Geographic Information System (GIS) in Kahnuj County in the southeast of Iran....

Non Structural elements such as mechanical, electrical and architectural elements always posses serious damage potentials during earthquakes. Degree of damage imposed by the non structural elements is not usually measured by the physical damages caused, but more so by the amount of the economical and functional disruptions created in a built environment. This phenomenon is enhanced where the fu...

Carbon dioxide causes green house effect and has been considered as a pollutant source forsafe environment. Since combustion of fossil fuel may create tremendous amount of carbon dioxide,detecting any pollutant sources would be important to eliminate the origin of pollution sources.Evaluation of smoke dispersion generated by the power plant utilizing fossil fuel is the objective of thispaper. T...

The unit commitment problem in power plant operation planning is addressed For a real power system comprising coal and gas red thermal and pumped storage hydro plants a large scale mixed integer optimization model for unit commitment is developed Then primal and dual approaches to solving the optimization problem are presented and results of test runs are reported

The paper examines design and operating data of current concentrated solar power (CSP) 11 solar tower (ST) plants. The study includes CSP with or without boost by combustion of natural gas 12 (NG), and with or without thermal energy storage (TES). The latest, actual specific costs per 13 installed capacity are very high, 6085 $/kW for Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) 14 with no ...

The autonomous energetic system is for a residential building and it has as primary sources exclusively renewable resources (biomass and solar energy). For obtaining electrical energy, photovoltaic sources and a Stirling engine are used. They operate simultaneously in 1:3 ratio – electrical/thermal energy. Solar collectors and a pellet boiler are used to cover the necessary of thermal energy. T...