Evaluation of Gas-Fired Combi Boilers with HF-AHP-MULTIMOORA

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2022

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Ayag, Zeki
Kirkil, Goekhan
Yucal, Esra

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Hindawi Ltd

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There are many alternative gas-fired combi boilers that can be used to heat residential homes. Evaluation and selection of gas-fired combi boilers for buildings is an intricate multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem involving perhaps contradictory quantifiable and qualitative criteria. In this research, as the MCDM approach, hesitant fuzzy linguistic analytic hierarchy process (HF-AHP) and hesitant fuzzy linguistic multiple objective optimization based on ratio analysis plus full multiplicative form (MULTIMOORA) (HF-MULTIMOORA) are integrated to assess and rank combi boiler alternatives for buildings. First, with HF-AHP, fuzzy criteria weights are determined and then with HF-MULTIMOORA, boiler alternatives are ranked from best to worst. In this integrated HF-AHP-MULTIMOORA method, evaluations of decision-makers are combined with fuzzy envelope approach and then triangular fuzzy numbers are utilized. For comparison analysis, HF-AHP-TOPSIS method is also applied to the same problem. A case study in Turkey is presented where ten combi boiler alternatives are assessed based on fifteen criteria by five decision-makers. We have used various selection criteria for boilers ranging from maximum temperature, heating capacity up to environmental effects and decided on the best combi boiler for heating residential buildings in Turkey.

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Multicriteria Decision-Making, Linguistic Term Set, Performance Evaluation, Fuzzy Vikor, Selection, Optimization, Methodology, Design, Multicriteria Decision-Making, Linguistic Term Set, Performance Evaluation, Fuzzy Vikor, Selection, Optimization, Methodology, Design

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Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing

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2022

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