Multi-criteria evaluation of cooking energy alternatives for promoting parabolic solar cooker in India

PROMETHEE: A comprehensive literature review on methodologies and applications

“…Specific area Other tools/methodologies used Chabchoub and Martel (2004) To evaluate twelve nuclear dump sites - Diakoulaki and Karangelis (2007) To evaluate four scenarios for the development of the power generation sector Cost-Benefit analysis Doukas et al (2006) To select the sustainable technologies for electricity generation - Georgopoulou et al (1998) Sustaining renewable energies exploitation - Goletsis et al (2003) Project ranking in the Armenian Energy Sector (by groups) The Spearman rank correlation coefficient Goumas and Lygerou (2000) Ranking alternative geothermal energy exploitation schemes Fuzzy PROMETHEE Haralambopoulos and Polatidis (2003) Ranking renewable energy projects Group decision-making framework Hyde et al (2003) The evaluation of six renewable energy scenarios A reliability analysis by Monte Carlo simulation/ Spearman rank correlation Madlener and Stagl (2005) Ranking renewable energy technology bands - Madlener et al (2007) Ranking five renewable energy scenarios - Pohekar and Ramachandran (2004a) Sustainable energy planning A review paper on MCDA methods including PROMETHEE Pohekar and Ramachandran (2004b) Ranking cooking energy alternatives - Polatidis and Haralambopoulos (2007) Ranking the various renewable energy technologies for the development of a wind park - Topcu and Ulengin (2004) To select a suitable electricity generation alternative - Tzeng et al (1992) To evaluate alternatives for new energy-system development - Wolters and Mareschal (1995) To make a decision on a heat exchanger network purely based on an economic evaluation of the alternatives Sensitivity analysis for changes in weight and criteria scores Zhou et al (2006) Decision analysis in energy and environmental modeling A review paper on decision analysis methods including PROMETHEE Table 9 The applied papers on the topic of ''Social".…”

Design and performance evaluation of solar cookers for developing countries: The case of Mutoyi, Burundi

“…Traditionally, the assessments of solar cookers are based only on laboratory evaluations of the thermal power transferred to the cooker and its efficiency. Such properties alone are insufficient to assess the potential appropriateness of a cooker, which depends also on qualitative and quantitative indicators that are crucial for the social acceptance of the device, as expressed by Pohekar et al It therefore emerges the need to intensify the scientific research on evaluation methodologies of solar cookers, as well as the investigation of approaches for forecasting the performance of solar cookers under different conditions. To this aim, Soria‐Verdugo started proposing a heat transfer model to forecast the performance of a box‐type solar cooker by simulating the operation of the technology under variable external conditions (viz, external temperature and solar radiation).…”

Selection of Best Renewable Energy Source by Using VIKOR Method

“…PROMETHEE technique has been used by Goumas et al [42], Goumas and Lygerou [43], and Haralambopoulos et al [44] in the work of geothermal project. Pohekar and Ramachandran [45] has used PROMETHEE method for the utilisation of parabolic solar cookers in India. Mladineo et al [46] used PROMETHEE technique to select hydro power plant installation area.…”