Jacek Kamiński

Technologies and costs of SO2-emissions reduction for the energy sector

The emissions limits, which are currently harder to meet than a few years ago, foster energy sector entrepreneurs to consider the possibilities of economically efficient emissions-reductions at their power plants. Within this paper the main methods of sulphur dioxide reduction will be described. The second problem considered in this paper is related to the economic aspect of emissions reduction. The choice of the method is often based on the comparison of costs associated with the appropriate methods. Therefore, for the technologies described, the average reduction costs will be presented and the most efficient way will be highlighted.

Analysing a Power Generation Sector Using the MILP Approach

The paper presents a computable model of the Polish power generation sector implemented as a Mixed Integer Linear Programming problem. As the optimisation process of power generation systems needs substantial computing resources and normally both specialised knowledge on modelling and expensive modelling systems are required, we decided to make the tool available to the scientific community via the PL-Grid Infrastructure. Consequently, users are allowed to transfer their tasks to computing clusters, hence all of the key numerical calculations are done on the computing clusters of ACC Cyfronet AGH. For interfacing with users we selected the QosCosGrid middleware, which is an efficient programming and execution tool. We present exemplary results based on designed scenario simulations carried out using the developed tool. Some potential improvements, such as transposition to a non-linear model, are also proposed for the future.