Optimizing Resource Utilization in Biomass Supply Chains by Creating Integrated Biomass Logistics Centers

Bio-based supply chains are by nature complex to optimize. The new logistic concept of integrated biomass logistical center (IBLC) provides us the opportunity to make full use of the idle capacity for a food/feed plant to produce biobased products so that the entire chain efficiency can be improved....

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Vydáno v:Energies (Basel) Ročník 13; číslo 22; s. 6153
Hlavní autoři: Guo, Xuezhen, Voogt, Juliën, Annevelink, Bert, Snels, Joost, Kanellopoulos, Argyris
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: MDPI AG 01.11.2020
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ISSN:1996-1073, 1996-1073
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Shrnutí:Bio-based supply chains are by nature complex to optimize. The new logistic concept of integrated biomass logistical center (IBLC) provides us the opportunity to make full use of the idle capacity for a food/feed plant to produce biobased products so that the entire chain efficiency can be improved. Although research has been conducted to analyze the IBLC concept, is yet to be an optimization model that can optimally arrange the activities in the supply chain where an IBLC stands in the middle. To fill the knowledge gap in the literature, this paper makes the first step to develop a MILP model that enables biobased supply chain optimization with the IBLC concept, which supports logistic and processing decisions in the chain. The model is applied in a case study for a feed and fodder plant in Spain where managerial insights have been derived for transferring the plant to a profitable IBLC.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en13226153