Sensitivity of Optimal Tradeoffs between Cost and Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Water Distribution Systems to Electricity Tariff and Generation

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 182-186

  Wu, Wenyan ^a   Simpson, Angus R ^a   Maier, Holger R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Genetic algorithms; Greenhouse gas emissions; Multiobjective optimization; Sensitivity analysis; Water distribution systems

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL AND OPERATING COSTS; COST MINIMIZATION; ECONOMIC COSTS; ELECTRICITY TARIFF; EMISSION FACTORS; MULTI OBJECTIVE; MULTI OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATIONS (MOO); OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMAL TRADEOFFS; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; PARETO-OPTIMAL FRONT; WATER DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COST ACCOUNTING; COSTS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRICITY; GAS EMISSIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GREENHOUSE GASES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GREENHOUSE GAS; MULTIOBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TARIFF STRUCTURE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84859297824     PISSN: 07339496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000169     Document Type: Article

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