A5034700710- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
National Technical University of Athens
2022-2025
Abstract The design of biofuel value chains is a complex process due to the large number stakeholders involved, seasonality in feedstock availability, security supply, logistics costs, efficiency considerations, and its multi‐node nature. Decisions on designing phytoremediation‐to‐biofuel are even more complicated, involvement additional stakeholders, contamination impacting types biomass that can be grown yield, sparse land availability or small plots – leading lack economies scale higher...
Clustering is commonly used in various fields such as statistics, geospatial analysis, and machine learning. In supply chain modelling, clustering applied when the number of potential origins and/or destinations exceeds solvable problem size. Related methods allow reduction models' dimensionality, hence facilitating their solution acceptable timeframes for business applications. The weighted minimum sum-of-square distances (Weighted MSSC) a typical encountered many biomass management...
When designing biomass-to-biofuel supply chains, the biomass uncertainty, seasonality and geographical dispersion that affect economic viability need to be considered. This work presents a novel methodology can optimize design of biofuel chains by adopting decentralized network structure consisting mix fixed mobile processing facilities. The model considers variable yield profile fast pyrolysis technology. mixed-integer linear programming developed identifies optimal production harvesting...