Design of forest energy supply networks using multi-objective optimization

Secondary transportation of raw and comminuted forest products is a major component in forest harvesting operations in terms of economics, public perception, and safety. Consequently, there is a substantial amount of literature on this topic. The existing literature has dealt with many of the technical aspects of transportation with a majority of them focusing on improving supply chain issues; however, there are only few specific to secondary transportation issues in general. This annotated bibliography will help practitioners, researchers, and stakeholders gain a better understanding of the existing literature from 2000 to 2015. To this end, we began by classifying the selected literature into six themes: cost, roads and routes, trucking, efficiency and safety, other modes of transportation, and supply chain and optimization. Woody biomass for bioenergy production was the most researched forest product with respect to transportation. About one-third of the articles were presented in the context of supply chain modeling and optimization. More than half of the studies originated from Europe while the United States had the most publications for any given country. Most articles (16) were published in 2013. Biomass and Bioenergy published the highest number of articles (29) during the timeframe.

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“…Kanzian et al [111] Austria 5 Designed forest energy supply network using multi-objective optimization.…”

Section: Gronalt and Rauch [108]mentioning

confidence: 99%

Annotated Bibliography of the Global Literature on the Secondary Transportation of Raw and Comminuted Forest Products (2000–2015)

Koirala

Kizha

Hoop

et al. 2018

Forests

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“…Risk mitigation, technology learning and carbon trading issues are also considered in the study. Kanzian et al (2013) developed a multiobjective optimization model for design of forest biomass supply chains. The handled supply chain consists of roadside stocks, terminals for fuel storages, shipping stations and district heating or CHP plants.…”

Section: Studies With Multiple Objectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biomass to Energy Supply Chain Network Design: An Overview of Models, Solution Approaches and Applications

Balaman

Selim

2015

Handbook of Bioenergy

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Energy production from biomass is an alternative and additive way to fossil fuel based energy production to reduce the dependency on limited fossil fuel sources and mitigate the harmful environmental impacts of these systems. One of the major challenges in establishing efficient renewable energy systems is the complex supply chain structure in an uncertain decision environment, various decisions to be made and different conflicting criteria/objectives. This study describes the key issues in decision making for biomass to energy supply chains such as decision levels, uncertainty and sustainability concepts. It also provides a comprehensive review and systematic classification of the current literature on decision making approaches for design, management and operation of biomass to energy supply chains. This study allows readers to identify the decision making methods that satisfy the problem specific requirements and offer a clear vision of the advances in the field.

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“…A supply chain network design problem for forest biomass was investigated in [51]. After detecting the problem of energy wood accessibility caused by rapidly increasing demand and high supply costs, a multi-criteria optimization model including decisions such as chipping location, transport mode and volume and terminals used was proposed.…”

Section: Cost and Co 2 Minimizing Rural Electrification Planning Probmentioning

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A prize collecting Steiner tree approach to least cost evaluation of grid and off-grid electrification systems

Bolukbasi

Kocaman

2018

Energy

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The lack of access to electricity in developing countries necessitates spatial electricity planning for guiding sustainable electrification projects that evaluate the costs of centralized systems vis-a-vis decentralized approaches. Heuristic approaches have been widely used in such electrification problems to find feasible, cost effective solutions; however, most of the time global optimality of these solutions is not guaranteed. Our thesis through its modeling approach provides a new methodology to find the least cost solution to this electrification problem. We model the spatial network planning problem as Prize Collecting Steiner Tree problem which would be base for a decision support tool for rural electrification. This new method is systematically assessed using both randomly generated data and real data from rural regions across SubSaharan Africa. Comparative results for the proposed approach and a widely used heuristic method are presented based on computational experiments. Additionally, a bi-objective approach that permits to take carbon emission level into the account is implemented and experimented with numerical data.

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Design of forest energy supply networks using multi-objective optimization

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Annotated Bibliography of the Global Literature on the Secondary Transportation of Raw and Comminuted Forest Products (2000–2015)

Annotated Bibliography of the Global Literature on the Secondary Transportation of Raw and Comminuted Forest Products (2000–2015)

Biomass to Energy Supply Chain Network Design: An Overview of Models, Solution Approaches and Applications

A prize collecting Steiner tree approach to least cost evaluation of grid and off-grid electrification systems

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