Life cycle-based optimization of agro-industrial energy supply chains

College

Gokongwei College of Engineering

Department/Unit

Chemical Engineering

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source Title

2011 4th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization, ICMSAO 2011

Publication Date

7-1-2011

Abstract

Biofuels have become popular in recent years, as a result of growing concerns about climate change coupled with the need to enhance energy security. However, first generation biofuels have been criticized as competing with food production for increasingly scarce agricultural resources. As a result, enhancing the sustainability of biofuel production requires systematic, life-cycle based optimization of agro-industrial supply chains. Such an approach enables environmental impacts to be minimized by taking advantage of opportunities for integration throughout the supply chain, and by making effective use of byproducts. This paper describes a class of models for the optimal design of such energy systems. © 2011 IEEE.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1109/ICMSAO.2011.5775644

Keywords

Biomass energy; Energy crops; Agriculture and energy

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