Siting Carbon Conversion Energy Facilities With Spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis

摘要: Wyoming is known for its abundance of fossil fuels, and has a significant infrastructure to support the production these traditional energy resources. With increased demand more diverse sources, need emerged pursue new, innovative development approaches. This article describes application spatial multicriteria analysis explore potential carbon conversion facilities in Wyoming. Spatial an important capability geographic information systems, applying multiple criteria evaluation place-based problems such as siting. Two cases are presented concerning synthetic gas production—the siting small-scale coal gasification facility public–private research partnership, statewide suitability model commercialization high-temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor technology. Results demonstrate that success challenges with techniques influenced by availability...