APPLICATION OF MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING FOR GEOLOGICAL CARBON DIOXIDE STORAGE IN TURKEY¬

Year 2018, Volume: 19 Issue: 2, 536 - 545, 30.06.2018

İrem Firtina Ertis

https://doi.org/10.18038/aubtda.339002

Abstract

In contemporary era, carbon sequestration has become
an important issue. Rapidly increasing population, higher life-standards and
technological advancements consistently increase the amount of emissions,
especially CO₂. Nowadays,
the most promising solution is to minimize the carbon dioxide emissions with
using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies for a better future. The problem is to choose the best location for CO₂
storage which is a crucial and challenging multicriteria decision problem. The objective of this paper is to determine the
most appropriate city for carbon dioxide storage in Turkey, by demonstrating a
successful implementation of Multi-criteria Decision Making (MCDM) tool. This study presents the use of MCDM method based on Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal
Solution (TOPSIS) to
assess the suitable location for CO₂ storage. For that purpose, 4 alternative locations were evaluated via 8
criteria which are determined according to the opinions of the experts with
background information from the field. Towards this end, MCDM method, namely, TOPSIS,
was utilized for the location evaluation. Consequently, this method detects Diyarbakır as CO₂ storage
area which is also one of the most important city of Turkey for having finished
oil reservoirs and for its geopolitical location.

Keywords

Global warming, Carbon sequestration, Geological storage, multi-criteria decision making, TOPSIS

References

• Reference 1 Fehmi Gorkem Uctug [e-mail]
• Reference 2 Asli Coban [e-mail]
• Reference 3 Ozge Kerkez Kuyumcu [e-mail]