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CO 2 emissions reduction from the power system in India
Author(s) -
Chattopadhyay Debabrata,
Parikh Jyoti K.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
natural resources forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.646
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1477-8947
pISSN - 0165-0203
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-8947.1993.tb00185.x
Subject(s) - reduction (mathematics) , environmental science , environmental protection , mathematics , geometry
The power system in India accounts for nearly one‐third of CO 2 emissions of the country as a whole. A comparison of some of the technical options to reduce CO 2 emissions is presented in this paper. A linear programming framework is used to simulate the integrated optimal operation of the three regional grids, and it is shown that such operations lead to lower fuel costs and to lower CO 2 emissions. The same framework is used to see how a rise in thermal efficiency translates into a CO 2 emissions reduction. Reduced fuel requirements also lead to reductions in other pollutants ie SO 2 , NO x and fly ash. The reductions in CO 2 emissions and other pollutants are at far lower cost in the case of integrated optimal operations as compared to reductions due to gas fuelled generation or thermal efficiency improvements. However, thermal efficiency improvements under optimal integrated operations result in much higher reductions in operating costs, coal consumption and total emissions of all pollutants.