Integrated design and control of multigeneration systems for building complexes

Fuentes-Cortés, Luis Fabián; Dowling, Alexander W.; Rubio-Maya, Carlos; Zavala, Ví­ctor M.; Ponce-Ortega, José María

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2016.05.093

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“…Here, we use a technique known as the utopia-tracking method, which aims to find a solution that balances all the metrics. 51,52 The main idea is to identify the best possible value of each metric to obtain what is known as the utopia point.…”

Section: Conflict Analysis and Resolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing Conflicting Economic and Environmental Metrics in Livestock Manure Management

Yi-cheng

Aguirre-Villegas

Larson

et al. 2022

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airy farming is a multi-billion {USD} industry that provides essential food products. At the same time, the millions of animals that this industry oversees generate a massive environmental footprint (affecting air, land, and water quality). Specifically, livestock manure is a carbon- and nutrient-rich waste stream that is routinely used as fertilizer. This practice enables nutrient recycling but also leads to emissions of greenhouse gases and to nutrient pollution of soils and waterbodies. Mitigating these environmental impacts requires investment in manure processing technologies; identifying and prioritizing investment strategies requires understanding inherent conflicts (trade-offs) and synergies that exist between economic and environmental impacts. In this work, we present a conflict analysis and resolution framework that integrates techno-economic analysis (TEA), life cycle assessment (LCA), and supply chain (SC) optimization. We use this framework to investigate deployment scenarios of manure processing pathways in the Upper Yahara watershed region of Wisconsin; here, we evaluate LCA metrics (GHG emissions, ammonia emissions, fossil energy use, and nutrient pollution) and TEA metrics (cost and revenue) for different pathways that include manure collection, storage, application, and processing steps. The LCA and TEA metrics are embedded within a SC optimization model that makes decisions on technology selection and geographical placement and on product transport in the study area. A conflict resolution procedure is used to explore trade-offs associated with these decisions and to identify optimal compromise solutions that best balance trade-offs. Our results reveal that there exist non-obvious conflicts and synergies between the explored metrics that can be exploited to mitigate multiple impacts simultaneously. We also find that the deployment of a diverse set of technologies is needed to fully resolve conflicts. The impact of emerging technologies (ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis) and government incentives is also discussed.

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Section: Conflict Analysis and Resolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing Conflicting Economic and Environmental Metrics in Livestock Manure Management

Yi-cheng

Aguirre-Villegas

Larson

et al. 2022

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“…Multi-criteria decision-making tools enable decision makers to make informed decisions and achieve optimal results . This subject has been the reason for several publications. − In this paper, a multi-stakeholder approach based on a multi-objective optimization formulation was implemented and is described as follows. First, the coordinates of the utopia point are used to represent the upper bound (UB) of the considered individual objective functions.…”

Section: Multi-stakeholder Formulationmentioning

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Strategic Planning for Managing Municipal Solid Wastes with Consideration of Multiple Stakeholders

Diaz-Barriga-Fernandez

Santibáñez-Aguilar

Radwan

et al. 2017

ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng.

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Management of municipal solid waste (MSW) involves multiple stakeholders such as government agencies, suppliers, consumers, providers of treatment/recycle services, and transporters. An optimal management strategy should be based on creating synergistic opportunities that benefit the multiple participants. This paper presents a multi-objective optimization approach for the strategic planning of a municipal solid waste management system. The formulation considers the involved tasks such as recycle, reuse, transportation, separation, and distribution. The proposed approach also accounts for the multiple stakeholders with the objective of maximizing the benefit to all the participating stakeholders. The Latin Hypercube sampling technique is adopted to systematically generate weights for the different stakeholders. A case study from Mexico is analyzed where three scenarios are considered. The first one considers that the separation cost is absorbed by each recycling company. The second one assumes that the government is responsible for the separation cost. The third one requires household inhabitants to carry out waste sorting. The optimization approach is used to analyze the results of the various scenarios and to deduce valuable insights on the interaction among the various stakeholders and the building blocks of the supply chain of MSW management systems.

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“…Integral approaches include the simultaneous optimization of the operational policy coupled to sizing the system considering the energy behavior of the end user and multiobjective approaches that take into account environmental objectives. 49,51,57,61,62 The multiobjective approaches and the economic and environmental impacts are addressed in different sections of this work.…”

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Perspectives for Implementing Distributed Generation in Developing Countries through Modeling Techniques

Fuentes-Cortés

Ponce-Ortega

2017

ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng.

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This paper addresses the status, problems, and development of distributed energy resources in developing countries. We have focused on the projects in Latin America, Asia, eastern Europe, and North Africa. The problems for developing new energy technologies are linked to particular conditions, such as regulated markets, energy policies, urban planning and development, low-income communities, environmental impact, and economic instability. We are presenting a perspective based on the literature review of the different proposals for solving the particular problems associated with the implementation of energy projects under the modeling perspective, highlighting the residential environment and domestic applications. Five different fields used on modeling approaches are included in the review: technologic development, economic performance, environmental impact, social context, and modeling proposals. We have identified the addressed problems, the applied modeling techniques, the trends shown by the results presented, and the expectations for future works in the field of distributed energy generation.

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Integrated design and control of multigeneration systems for building complexes

Cited by 35 publications

References 61 publications

Managing Conflicting Economic and Environmental Metrics in Livestock Manure Management

Managing Conflicting Economic and Environmental Metrics in Livestock Manure Management

Strategic Planning for Managing Municipal Solid Wastes with Consideration of Multiple Stakeholders

Perspectives for Implementing Distributed Generation in Developing Countries through Modeling Techniques

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