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    Master Thesis
    Economic and Operational Analysis of Compressed Air Energy Storage Systems
    (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2011) Kara, Esma Sedef; Yücekaya, Ahmet Deniz; Yücekaya, Ahmet Deniz
    A Compressed Air Energy Storage System (CAES) is a way to store energy to be used when the demand for energy is high. in this system the air is pumped into a cavern when the power price is low and the air is used in a natural gas fired turbine to generate power when the price is high aiming to make profit from this price difference. The system can pump or generate or do both. Typically the power price is low at nights and high during the daytime. However the power and natural gas price along with the heat rate of the turbine should be included to the model to determine when the air should be pumped and when the power should be generated to maximize the revenue. in this research a mixed integer programming method is developed to determine a pumping-generation schedule for the CAES given that market and natural gas price for each hour can be forecasted. Appropriate forecasting methods are used to simulate the power and natural gas prices for the analysis. The model is coded in General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) and a case study is presented to validate the model. in addition to scheduling of the CAES another important contribution of this research is to develop a framework for investor companies who wish to build a CAES system. We develop 30-years long market price and natural gas price scenarios and we find annual profits through optimum scheduling of the CAES plant given that market price and natural gas prices are variable. Then we use appropriate engineering economics tools to estimate a Net Present Worth value of each different scenario for the decision makers of the investment companies.