Abstract
<jats:p>Against the backdrop of intensifying global greenhouse effect, this paper investigates the electricity carbon market trading strategies for electrolytic copper industrial parks, to alleviate the pressures of carbon compliance requirements and energy consumption costs. First, considering the material flow of each production process in electrolytic copper industrial parks, especially the thermal inertia characteristic that short-term power regulation of electrolytic cells will not impair product quality, a material flow model for each production process is developed. Second, a coupling model for electrolytic copper industrial parks is constructed in accordance with the interactive coupling relationships among the material, energy and carbon emission flows. Then, a coordinated electricity carbon market trading strategy for electrolytic copper industrial parks is put forward, with the minimization of overall comprehensive operation costs as the core optimization objective. Finally, the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed trading strategy are validated against actual operational data collected from an electrolytic copper industrial park. The results demonstrate that the multi-flow coupling-based electricity-carbon market trading strategy developed in this study can effectively drive electrolytic copper industrial parks to cut carbon emissions and enhance the economic benefits of production and operation activities.</jats:p>