Development of an intelligent decision support system for air pollution control at coal-fired power plants

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 335-356

  Zhou, Qian ^a   Huang, Guo H ^a   Chan, Christine W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Environment; Expert decision support system; Power plants

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; CATALYST SELECTIVITY; COAL FIRED BOILERS; DECISION MAKING; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; GAS EMISSIONS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SULFUR DIOXIDE;

CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY (CCT); GAUSSIAN DISPERSION MODEL; SELECTIVE CATALYTIC REDUCTION (SCR);

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0348231950     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2003.09.005     Document Type: Article

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