the importance of energy crisis and global warming necessitates presenting strategies in order to decrease the amount of emissions as well as fuel consumption in large and complex industries such as refineries and petrochemical industries. generally, refinery steam networks are regarded as units which consume fuel enormously. in this paper, the steam network of tehran oil refinery is considered...

Guangdong, as China’s most affluent province, which is representative in terms of its industrial and energy consumption structure, will deal with an important issue about how to change its environmental management policies from command-and-control strategies to incentive-based ones and how to exert its effects to the greatest extent possible in the new situation of the impending imposition of a...

In this study, a contract for vertical and horizontal coordination is developed in which transportation mode and carbon emissions tax play a key role in determining the values of the contract parameters. The contract is designed for simultaneous coordination of cooperative advertising and periodic review replenishment decisions of a supplier and two competitive retailers. To obtain the optimal ...

We present a family of simple globally aggregated and regionalized actor-based systemdynamics Integrated Assessment models (IAMs). We first develop a global IAM in which both fossil-fuel-based capital and renewable-energy-based capital determine the production function. A business-as-usual scenario (no mitigation policy) is compared with various mitigation scenarios based on different global ca...

In the absence of a global agreement to reduce emissions, Australia has adopted a carbon tax unilaterally to curb its own emissions. During the debate prior to passing the carbon tax legislation, there were concerns about the challenge that Australia’s emissions intensive and trade exposed (EITE) industries may face in terms of decreasing international competitiveness due to the unilateral natu...