Strategic Planning for the Sustainable Production of Biofuels

Presents several optimization approaches for the strategic planning of biorefinery supply chains, considering sustainability, uncertainty and logistics within case studies

José Maria Ponce-Ortega (Author), José Ezequiel Santibañez-Aguilar (Author)

9780128181782

Paperback, published 8 March 2019

530 pages
23.4 x 19 x 3.3 cm, 0.45 kg

Strategic Planning for the Sustainable Production of Biofuels presents several optimization models for the design and planning of sustainable biorefinery supply chains, including issues surrounding the potential of biomass feedstocks in multiple harvesting sites, availability and seasonality of biomass resources, different potential geographical locations for processing plants that produce multiple products using diverse production technologies, economies of scale for production technologies, demands and prices of multiple products, locations of storage facilities, and a number of transportation modes. Sustainability considerations are incorporated into the proposed models by including simultaneous economic, environmental and social performance in the evaluation of the supply chain designs.

1. Introduction2. Involving environmental aspect in the strategic planning of a biomass conversion system3. Optimal planning and site selection for distributed multiproduct biorefineries involving economic, environmental and social objectives4. Distributed biorefining networks for the valued-added processing of water hyacinth5. Optimization of the supply chain associated to the production of bioethanol from residues of the agave from the tequila process in Mexico6. Financial risk assessment and optimal planning of biofuels supply chains under uncertainty7. Stochastic design of biorefinery supply chains considering economic and environmental objectives8. Mixed-integer dynamic optimization or planning distributed biorefineriesAppendixA. GAMS code for the model of Chapter 2B. GAMS code for the model of Chapter 3C. GAMS code for the model of Chapter 4D. GAMS code for the model of Chapter 6E. GAMS code for the model of Chapter 7F. GAMS code for the model of Chapter 8

Subject Areas: Chemical engineering [TDCB], Biochemical engineering [TC]