Weighted Goal Programming Approach to Minimize the Emission of Carbon Dioxide from Thermal Power Industries

Resumen

In this continuously deteriorating climate conditions, energy conservation is an effective tool
towards the mitigation of CO2 emissions. It is high time to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide
from the thermal power plant because of its contribution in increasing the rate of global
warming. In India, 85% of thermal power plants are based on coal and 65% of India’s electricity
generated by coal based thermal power plant. Due to expensive machines and expensive process
of reduction of CO2, companies usually avoid storing CO2 for recycling; they usually left it in the
environment which causes high range of CO2 in the atmosphere. This paper helps industries to
reduce CO2 emission from thermal power plants by decreasing penalty applied by government
on industries, increasing the number of depleted gas reservoirs, increasing the use of
underground storage or ocean storage, by increase in saving process energy, increasing carbon
tax, decreasing processing cost and increasing capital income, increasing the use of washed coal
so that the emission of carbon dioxide from the thermal power plant reduce. To solve multiple
goals, weighted goal programming method is used to give optimal solution.