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Site Selection of Thermal Power Plant Using GIS
Sara Beheshtifar
M.Sc. student in GIS
K.N. Toosi University of Technology,
Iran
Email: sara_beheshtifar@yahoo.com
M. Sadi Mesgari
Assistant professor
K.N. Toosi University of Technology
Email: mesgari@kntu.ac.ir
Concerning the population growth and development of industrial and agricultural sections, the electric power demand is increasing continuously. Therefore, it is necessary to forecast the load of the electric network and expand the power system for supplying reliable electrical energy.
A power plant as a power generating station is one of the essential infrastructures of the electric network. The construction of new power plants is an important part of the electric network expansion. The suitability of selected site for power plant affects the amount of generated energy, power plant's productivity, cost of power generation and transmission (loss of energy), economical development and environment.
Therefore, in site selection process for a power plant it is necessary to carefully consider not only the technical issues, but also it's impact on natural environment, economy and near local communities.
Since most of the related data to site selection of power plants are geospatial, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) allows for the consideration and combination of various data about geology, topography, water resources, roads, available electric network, fuel supply, land use, etc.
In this research, the conceptual model of power plant sitting is designed and various models for integrating maps have been investigated. Based on the conceptual model scale maps in 1:250000 and 1:25000 chosed to be used in this research project.
For experimental test, the factor maps of studied area(Fars province ) have been prepared and integrated using several models. Finally the results have been compared and the suitable locations for the construction of power plant are selected using GIS.
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