Selection of a thermal power plant location in the central region of Thailand : a multicriteria decision approach | |
| Author | Parnu Mongkornkarn |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no. ISE-97-29 |
| Subject(s) | Industrial location--Thailand Multiple criteria decision making |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Advanced Technologies |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. ISE-97-29 |
| Abstract | The study is concerned with EGAT's locational decisions to select the best site from potential sites for installing the four units of 1,000 MW of coal-fired power plant in central region of Thailand. The locational decisions require to take into consideration several qualitative and quantitative criteria of economic, technological or social nature. EGAT' s representaives from Planning, Engineering, Construction, Production and Environment Division having divergent opinions on the relative importance of these criteria are the decision maker for this case study. Solving a decision problem of this nature has to recourse to multicriteria modeling. In power plant location problem, the number of potential sites is finite and predetermined. So Multiattribute Decision Making (MADM) - Analytic Hierarchy Process (ARP) based on ratio scale of relative priorities, the Multi-Attribute Value Theory (MA VT) based on importance scale and the Preference Ranking Organization Methods for Enrichment Evaluations (PROMETHEE) based on outranking approach - are employed to solve this locational problem. In this study, the ARP is employed to develop the decision model. For group decision making, the Weighted Arithmetic Mean Method (W AMM) is employed for aggregation of different individual preferences to obtain a single collective preference. Data collection, information regarding the criteria (criteria weight) is received from decision makers by AHP questionnaire. Information within each criteria is received from EGAT's specialist by both existing data and questionnaire. The ranking of MA VT and PROMETHEE approaches are hardly different but AHP ranking is different from both approaches. Especially for the first rank position, three out of five decision maker's rank of MA VT and PROMETHEE is same while rank of AHP is different. |
| Year | 1997 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. ISE-97-29 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Advanced Technologies (SAT) |
| Department | Other Field of Studies (No Department) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Industrial Systems Engineering (ISE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Pastijn, Hugo |
| Examination Committee(s) | Nagarur, Nagendra N.;Anulark Pinnoi |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1997 |