Naslov
Sustainability assessment of co-generation sector development in Croatia

Autori
Lipošćak, Marko ; Afgan , Naim ; Duić, Neven ; Carvalho, Maria Graça

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Sustainable development of energy, water and environment systems / Guzović, Zvonimir - Zagreb : Fakultet strojarstva i brodogradnje Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2003, 123-132

Skup
2nd Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems

Mjesto i datum
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska, 15.06.2003. - 20.06.2003

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Sustainability assessment; cogeneration

Sažetak
The effective and rational energy generation and supply is one of the main presumptions of sustainable development. Combined heat and power production, or co-generation, has clear environmental advantages by increasing energy efficiency and decreasing carbon emissions. However, higher investment cost and more complicated design and maintenance sometimes present disadvantages from the economical viability point of view. As in the case of most of economies in transition in Central and Eastern Europe, Croatia has a strong but not very efficient co-generation sector, delivering 12% of the final energy consumption. District heating systems in the country’ s capital Zagreb and in city of Osijek represent the large share of the overall co-generation capacity. Besides district heating, co-generation in industry sector is also relatively well developed. The paper presents an attempt to assess the sustainability of Croatian co-generation sector future development. The sustainability assessment requires multi-criteria assessment of specific scenarios to be taken into consideration. In this respect three scenarios of Croatian co-generation sector future development are taken into consideration and for each of them environmental, social and economic sustainability indicators are defined and calculated. The assessment of complex relationship between environmental, social and economic aspects of the system is based on the multi-criteria decision making procedure. The sustainability assessment is based on General Sustainability Index rating for different cases reflecting different criteria and their priority. The method of sustainability assessment is applied to the Croatian co-generation sector contributing to the evaluation of different strategies and definition of a foundation for policy related to the sustainable future cogeneration sector development.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Strojarstvo

POVEZANOST RADA