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Título:
Optimal Strategic Planning of the Bioethanol Industry Supply Chain with Environmental Considerations
Autor/es:
MELE, FERNANDO D.; HERNÁNDEZ, MARÍA R.; BANDONI, ALBERTO
Lugar:
Cambridge, EEUU
Reunión:
Congreso; Foundations On Compuer-Aided Process Operations (FOCAPO 2008); 2008
Institución organizadora:
CAPE Working Party
Resumen:
The objective of this work is to present a quantitative tool to support decision-making in the area ofoptimal design of the sugar/ethanol supply chain (SC). The problem is formulated as a multi-objective mixed-integer linear program simultaneously taking into account costs and environmental impact minimization at each stage of the production chain. The formulation is applied on a case study to find different SC configurations, confirming the existent trade-off between the objectives. The approach offers a valuable insight of the design problem, and a guide to adopt more sustainable strategic alternatives for such an important problem as the bio-refineries SC represents.
