Renewable methane – A technology evaluation by multi-criteria decision making from a European perspective

Billig, Eric; Thraen, Daniela

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2017.07.164

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“…In addition, they determined maintenance strategy combinations for each selected equipment through goal programming. Billig and Thraen evaluated 99 biochemical and thermochemical conversion alternatives in economic and technical criteria for biomethane generation. They used AHP and utility value analysis methods and determined bio‐SNG‐3 residual forest wood as the most suitable alternative.…”

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Use of MCDM techniques for energy policy and decision-making problems: A review

2018

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Energy consumption increases all over the world as a result of industrialization in recent years. In this context, it has become important to meet increasing energy demand. It is significant to find alternative energy sources because of limited nonrenewable energy sources such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas. At this point, renewable energy sources have an important role to meet energy requirement. As a result, decision and policy making for energy is completely critical issue for countries. Various technical, economic, environmental, and social criteria are used to solve energy policy and decision-making problems such as evaluation of energy projects, selection among energy alternatives, power plant site selection, and determining energy policy. Multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) methods are used as effective tools to help decision makers while solving energy problems. There are a large number of studies including articles, conference papers, and book chapters, which examine energy problems by using MCDM methods in the literature. Therefore, analyzing these studies according to different features such as publication year, MCDM method, document type, statistical analyses, country, and published journal can be beneficial for leading researchers who study in energy decision-making field. In this study, published papers, which use traditional MCDM methods to handle energy problems, are examined systematically. By the way, it is aimed to lead to researchers regarding MCDM methods which are utilized in energy applications. It also conducted some statistical analyses to obtain trends between years and MCDM methods. Besides, recent developments in energy field are presented through this comprehensive literature review.

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Use of MCDM techniques for energy policy and decision-making problems: A review

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“…Billig and Thraen [33] studied technical and economic aspects (99 different alternatives) of renewable methane production from biomass. The AHP method in combination with utility value analysis was adapted for that.…”

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An Overview of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods in Dealing with Sustainable Energy Development Issues

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The measurement of sustainability is actively used today as one of the main preventative instruments in order to reduce the decline of the environment. Sustainable decision-making in solving energy issues can be supported and contradictory effects can be evaluated by scientific achievements of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques. The main goal of this paper is to overview the application of decision-making methods in dealing with sustainable energy development issues. In this study, 105 published papers from the Web of Science Core Collection (WSCC) database are selected and reviewed, from 2004 to 2017, related to energy sustainability issues and MCDM methods. All the selected papers were categorized into 9 fields by the application area and into 10 fields by the used method. After the categorization of the scientific articles and detailed analysis, SWOT analysis of MCDM approaches in dealing with sustainable energy development issues is provided. The widespread application and use of MCDM methods confirm that MCDM methods can help decision-makers in solving energy sustainability problems and are highly popular and used in practice.

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“…23 Integrated evaluation maps prepared by the stacking method are widely used in delineating the distribution of favorable areas in a specific region. [25][26][27][28] Actually, the selection of favorable shale gas areas can be abstracted mathematically as the multi-index decision, and these approaches, in principle, can be used to serve for the target. [25][26][27][28] Actually, the selection of favorable shale gas areas can be abstracted mathematically as the multi-index decision, and these approaches, in principle, can be used to serve for the target.…”

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“…24 Furthermore, there are a good number of quantitative approaches, for instance, the fuzzy evaluation method, fuzzy similarity method, and TOPSIS method, which can be used in the field of hydrocarbon evaluation. [25][26][27][28] Actually, the selection of favorable shale gas areas can be abstracted mathematically as the multi-index decision, and these approaches, in principle, can be used to serve for the target. However, unfortunately, there have been, at present, few studies on the selection of favorable shale gas regions by these methods, even though they are frequently used in the shale gas development, as well as economic and policy assessment.…”

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Approaches for the evaluation of favorable shale gas areas and applications: Implications for China's exploration strategy

Zhang

Tang

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Energy Science & Engineering

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To explore practical approaches for the evaluation of favorable shale gas areas, a structural decomposition analysis with respect to the index system, evaluation criteria, weight determination, and evaluation methods was carried out. Five types of indexes were determined from 25 subindexes that formed the index system, and improved whitenization weight functions are proposed to establish evaluation criteria. The index weights calculated using entropy weight and Euclidean distance methods are consistent, whereas the weights determined by gray relational analysis are significantly affected by the relative number of indexes and evaluation objects, selected mother factor, and resolution coefficient. The significant linear positive correlation between the relative approach degree values calculated using TOPSIS and the scores obtained using fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (FCE) is indicative of a consistent evaluation result, but it should be noted that extreme indicator values can have strong effects on the evaluation using the fuzzy similarity method. Finally, an exploration strategy for China's shale gas is suggested: Areas with weak reformation and relatively low maturity are expected to be favorable for marine shale production in South China, and continental and transitional shale‐bearing basins are promising for the prospecting multiple‐origin shale gas and coal measure gas, respectively.

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Renewable methane – A technology evaluation by multi-criteria decision making from a European perspective

Cited by 40 publications

References 22 publications

Use of MCDM techniques for energy policy and decision-making problems: A review

Use of MCDM techniques for energy policy and decision-making problems: A review

An Overview of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods in Dealing with Sustainable Energy Development Issues

Approaches for the evaluation of favorable shale gas areas and applications: Implications for China's exploration strategy

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