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Energy and environment - Optimal control strategies for reducing emissions from energy production and energy use

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As a result of the rapid increase in forest damages in Mid-Europe, the need for the reduction of air pollutions from energy conversion and energy-end-use technologies became an important political objective.

air pollutions are distributed over large distances partly over several thousand kilometres crossing several borders. All European countries are burdened by the transport of air pollutions from other countries. This clarifies the fact that any measures to reduce environmental damages can only be effective in an international context.

Due to the complexity of the energy system, its numerous interrelations and the large number of technologies and measurements, which in principle are available to reduce the air pollution emissions, the analysis and the identification of efficient emissions reduction strategies require an adequate methodological instrument. The extension of the existing EFOM 12C model that describes the energy systems at the different EC countries in a very detailed form seems to be a promising starting point for the analysis of the following problems and questions :

- The future development of air pollution emissions.

- impact of further improvement of energy efficiency and of a possible increase of the market share for solid fuels.
- effect of emission reduction measures and policies.
- Cost-optimal emission reduction strategies.
- Waste management for the follow-up products.
- Contribution of interregional measures.
In order to solve energy use problems in most of the countries of the European Community, energy supply models and energy demand models have been developed and applied. However, one issue of the rapidly expanding use of energy during the 1970s was underestimated: its impact on the environment. Energy conversion and its use are the most important sources of pollution. Environmental problems have arisen especially: damage to forests and crops, acidification of soil and lakes, damage of human health, damage to buildings and accelerated material corrosion.
The objective of the project is twofold : During the first phase the energy model EFOM developed within the ec-project on "ENERGY SYSTEMS ANALYSIS" shall be extended by an environment-module and as a pilot study the model will be used for an analysis of cost-optimal strategies to reduce SO2-, NOX- and dust-emissions in connections with energy production and energy use in the FRG. This first phase of the project will be carried out by three different institutes (IKE, IIP, STE), each participating according to its specialisation.
the present contract describes the part of the global work, to be done by IIP. IIP will be charged with the modelling of the energy conversion in the public and industrial power plants and the energy use in industry.
furthermore IIP will be responsible for the coordination of the project on the european level.

during the second phase questions concerning the interrelationship of "Energy and Environment" will be studied on a European level. A cooperation between institutes in seven EC countries will be set up to demonstrate the usefulness of the developed model.

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