Energy generated by the force of water in hydropower can provide a more sustainable, non-polluting alternative to fossil fuels, along with other renewable sources of energy, such as wind, solar and tidal power, bio energy and geothermal energy. Small scale hydroelectricity in Iran is well suited for “off-grid” rural electricity applications, while other renewable energy sources, such as wind, s...

A study of future energy requirements and of the potential of various energy sources (coal, oil, gas, nuclear power, hydropower and solar energy) indicates that the contribution to be made by nuclear fission, now competitive with conventional energy sources, will grow steadily over the next few decades. Whereas the amount of fuel which has to be fabricated each year for the operation of a nucle...

Energy generated by the force of water in hydropower can provide a more sustainable, non-polluting alternative to fossil fuels, along with other renewable sources of energy, such as wind, solar and tidal power, bio energy and geothermal energy. Small scale hydroelectricity in Iran is well suited for “off-grid” rural electricity applications, while other renewable energy sources, such as wind, s...

Making potable water through desalination plants is a very important process in Iran where clean water is highly required. On the other hand, large amount of fossil fuel sources leads to the development of gas turbine power plants all over the country. Furthermore, Persian Gulf in the south and Caspian Sea in the north could be the main sources for supplying potable water in water scarcity area...

This paper studies the impacts of renewable energy support policies on energy prices, fossil fuel supply and thus carbon emissions and climate change. We show that the impacts are highly dependent on capacity constraints of renewable energies and market power in the fossil fuel sector. We differentiate renewable energies by whether they face production capacity constraints (solar vs. biofuels) ...

In this paper a Mixed Integer Dynamic Optimization (MIDO) framework is exploited for combined Unit Commitment and Economic Load Scheduling (UCELS) optimization of power plants. Economic load scheduling optimization problem is formulated as a Dynamic Optimization (DO) problem that allows us to optimize the plant operations by taking into account the time varying dynamics. Dynamic optimization pr...

The capture of CO2 from power plant flue gases provides an opportunity to mitigate emissions that are harmful to the global climate. While the process of CO2 capture using an aqueous amine solution is well-known from experience in other technical sectors (e.g., acid gas removal in the gas processing industry), its operation combined with a power plant still needs investigation because in this c...

As a response to the threat of global climate change, a number of technologies have been proposed in which the carbon dioxide produced by combustion of fossil fuels at power stations is captured and stored. A leading option is based on the pre-combustion decarbonisation of fossil fuels to produce hydrogen-rich fuel gases. Such decarbonisation processes integrate the production of a synthesis ga...