A fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making model for trigeneration system

Jiang-Jiang Wang, You-Yin Jing, Chun-Fa Zhang, Guo-Hua Shi and Xu-Tao Zhang

Energy Policy, 2008, vol. 36, issue 10, 3823-3832

Abstract: The decision making for trigeneration systems is a compositive project and it should be evaluated and compared in a multi-criteria analysis method. This paper presents a fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making model (FMCDM) for trigeneration systems selection and evaluation. The multi-criteria decision-making methods are briefly reviewed combining the general decision-making process. Then the fuzzy set theory, weighting method and the FMCDM model are presented. Finally, several kinds of trigeneration systems, whose dynamical sources are, respectively stirling engine, gas turbine, gas engine and solid oxide fuel cell, are compared and evaluated with a separate generation system. The case for selecting the optimal trigeneration system applied to a residential building is assessed from the technical, economical, environmental and social aspects, and the FMCDM model combining analytic hierarchical process is applied to the trigeneration case to demonstrate the decision-making process and effectiveness of proposed model. The results show that the gas engine plus lithium bromide absorption water heater/chiller unit for the residential building is the best scheme in the five options.

Keywords: Trigeneration; system; Fuzzy; multi-criteria; decision; making; Analytical; hierarchy; process; (AHP) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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