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Multicriteria Decision Models in Industrial Energy Management Systems

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Due to the complexity of processes and energy flow in industries, energy management systems play an important role in order to provide guidance to improve energy performance in industrial energy systems, regarding organisational barriers for energy efficiency improvement. Industrial processes are characterized by diverse actors and several criteria (technical, economical, etc.) resulting in a complex decision-making process. Therefore, multicriteria decision models are important tools to support decision makers in energy management systems. A decision model was applied to industrial motor systems using the PROMETHEE II method in order to sort technologies to be replaced. The results present a complete ranking of technologies taking into account the organisation concerns. This contributes for the transposition of some organisational barriers. The work recommends the application of decision model in organisations in order to support decision makers in Energy Management Systems to improve the energy performance.

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  1. Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Campus Ponta Grossa. Av. Monteiro Lobato, Km. 4 , Ponta Grossa, PR, 84016-310, Brazil

    Antonio Vanderley Herrero Sola

  2. Centro de Tecnologia e Geociências, Secretaria do PPGEP - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 5° Andar do Bloco Administrativo, Av. Acadêmico Hélio Ramos, s/n - Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, 50740-530, Brazil

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Sola, A.V.H., de Miranda Mota, C.M. (2015). Multicriteria Decision Models in Industrial Energy Management Systems. In: Guarnieri, P. (eds) Decision Models in Engineering and Management. Decision Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11949-6_10

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