Research articleAn optimization model for carbon capture & storage/utilization vs. carbon trading: A case study of fossil-fired power plants in Turkey
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Introduction and literature review
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been increasing steadily since the beginning of industrial revolution. Over the last decade, annual GHG emissions have increased by an average of 2.7% (Cuéllar-Franca and Azapagic, 2015). Since 1990s two major worldwide gatherings took place, one in Kyoto and the other one in Paris, in 1997 and 2015, respectively. In these meetings, it has been scientifically suggested that the average global temperature increase as a result of climate change should be
Problem description and methodology
We give the problem definition and the mathematical model in this section.
Case study
We consider two power plants located in Soma (west of Turkey) and Afsin (southeast of Turkey). They are indicated as stars in Fig. 2. These power plants are lignite-fired power plants with installed capacities of 1000 MW and 1800 MW, respectively. Both plants operate with a capacity factor of 85%. Although there is currently no operational ETS in operation in Turkey, the Directorate General of Environmental Management under the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization is currently investigating
Results
We implemented the model on General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) on a machine with Intel Xeon 2.27 GHz CPU, 24 GB RAM and Windows 2008 Server R2 operating system. As explained in the previous section, the objective function includes a nonlinear term, which is the installation cost of carbon capture units. Therefore, we first select BARON (Sahinidis, 2015), which guarantees to find global optimal solution for MINLPs, as the solver. However, the solver experienced numerical difficulties and
Conclusion
In this study we developed a mixed-integer programming model that aims to minimize the cost of decisions on the carbon capture unit for a set of thermal power plants and pipeline cost for transporting carbon less the revenue that would be obtained by selling carbon to entities and/or in an emissions trading scheme. Based on economic conditions, such as carbon price and carbon cap, the power plant can choose to install a carbon capture unit or not. The latter option involves purchasing credits
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