Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of existing coal-fired power plants is a necessary action to attain the global reductions committed in the Kyoto Protocol. In the framework of a cap and trade system, we propose a two-stage stochastic mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) approach for the...

In recent years, there has been a growing increase of the cooling demand in many parts of the world, which has led to major energy problems. In this context, solar assisted absorption cooling systems have emerged as a promising alternative to conventional vapor compression air conditioning...

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) is increasingly being used in a wide variety of applications to identify alternatives that balance several criteria. The energy sector is not an exception to this trend. Unfortunately, the complexity of MOO grows with the number of environmental objectives....