Keyword: energy

Found 722 papers in total
Greenhouse-gas emissions from the use of new fuels for transportation and electricity
1993,
Concern about global warming, poor urban air quality and dependence on insecure...
Costs and benefits of automotive fuel economy improvement: A partial analysis
1993,
This paper describes an exercise in estimating the costs and benefits of...
A new method for the performance index of a communication network
1993,
An algorithm is presented for evaluating the upper and lower bounds of the performance...
Electricity distribution planning model: A network design approach for solving the master problem of the Benders decomposition method
1993,
The authors present here a Lagrangean relaxation method combined with a heuristic...
How the Gas Research Institute (GRI) helped transform the United States natural gas industry
1993,
In the 1970s, natural gas was thought to be ‘a fuel with no future’. To...
A stochastic linear programming model for corn residue production
1992,
This paper presents the results of a stochastic linear program for estimating the...
Current Australian applications of Operations Research to natural resource management
1992,
Natural resource management has become an important research field in Australia....
Computing k-shortest path for nuclear spent fuel highway transportation
1991,
Four k- shortest path algorithms were implemented to select a set of optimal routes...
Some lessons in solving practical integer programs
1992,
Integer programs are harder to solve than linear programs of similar size. Even those...
Data envelopment analysis applied to electricity distribution districts
1992,
In this paper Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to evaluate efficiency measures...
A slow discounting model for energy conservation
1992,
Public benefits in the distant future receive very little importance when a policy...
Simultaneous equation estimates of electricity demand for the rural south: Revenue projection when prices are administered
1992,
Presented are estimates of demand equations and producer revenue projections for rural...
Modelling peak electricity demand
1992,
This paper estimates a forecasting equation for the hourly peak electricity demand one...
Optimization of purchase, storage and transmission contracts for natural gas utilities
1992,
Natural gas utilities supply about a quarter of the energy needs of the United States....
Numerical simulation of macroscopic continuum traffic models
1992,
This paper presents the derived Roe’s flux difference splitting method for...
A dynamic model of car fuel-type choice and mobility
1992,
This study examines the relationship between car mobility and the choice of...
Using spreadsheet simulation to generate a distribution of forecasts for electric power demand
1991,
Electric utilities commonly use econometric modelling for energy and power...
The future of nuclear power
1992,
The management consultancy Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte have learned many lessons...
Predicting failures in power plant components
1991,
Slowly growing defects in the components of a certain power station unit have led to...
Vehicle utilization at ‘Bay of Plenty Electricity’
1992,
Despite its often mathematical and abstract nature, queueing theory has provided a...
Optimal resource extraction with uncertain reserves
1992,
The paper considers the problem of finding a plan that maximizes the expected...
Some new aspects of the transient analysis of discrete-parameter Markov models with an application to the evaluation of repair events in power transmission
1991,
In Markov reliability modelling, a partitioned state space is used to describe the...
Comparison of weighting judgments in multiattribute utility measurement
1991,
This paper compares four weighting methods in multiattribute utility measurement: the...
Project evaluation for energy supply in rural areas of developing countries
1990,
This paper reports the methodological experiences of the project: Energy Supply...
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