PENINGKATAN EFISIENSI BAHAN BAKAR PADA PEMBANGKIT TENAGA DIESEL (PLTD) MELALUI PERBAIKAN FAKTOR DAYA BEBAN: (Alternatif baru pengurangan emisi CO2)

The contribution of the thermal power plant for CO2 emissions was a crucial problem of global warming all over theworld. Therefore, the emission reduction commitments continued to effort through treatments and technology to improvethe efficiency of power plant including the diesel power plant. This paper proposes the power factor improvement toreduce the emission of the diesel power plant output. This Proposal has shown a relationship between the power factorimprovement and the reduction of CO2 emissions from a diesel engine. From the results obtained by using the IEEE 30-bus test system (modified) proved that there was a emissions reduction significantly especially on the rate of the powerfactor with power factor > 0.97 (lagging)