1. Large-scale convex optimization methods for air quality policy assessment
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Carlson, D.A., Haurie, A., Vial, J.-P., and Zachary, D.S.
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AIR quality , *MATHEMATICAL optimization , *PHOTOCHEMISTRY - Abstract
This paper presents the implementation of a large-scale systems analytic method in a model permitting the assessment of air quality policies in urban regions. This method is based on the use of a convex optimization technique called the analytic center cutting plane method. One realizes the coupling of a photochemical model (TAPOM-Lite), used to simulate ozone creation and dispersion in the region under study, and of a technoeconomic model (MARKAL-Lite) that represents the technology and energy uses by different economic sectors in the same region. Although the models correspond to different time and space scales, one realizes the coupling through a series of approximating convex reduced order optimization problems with constraints that are implicitly defined by the photochemical and the technoeconomic model, respectively. The implementation of the method in a case study corresponding to the region of Geneva, Switzerland is described. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2004
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