Biomass to Biofuel Supply Chain Design and Planning under Uncertainty: Concepts and Quantitative Methods

by Mir Saman Pishvaee, Shayan Mohseni, Samira Bairamzadeh

Overview

Biomass to Biofuel Supply Chain Design and Planning under Uncertainty: Concepts and Quantitative Methods explores the design and optimization of biomass-to-biofuel supply chains for commercial-scale implementation of biofuel projects by considering the problems and challenges encountered in real supply chains. By offering a fresh approach and discussing a wide range of quantitative methods, the book enables researchers and practitioners to develop hybrid methods that integrate the advantages and features of two or more methods in one decision-making framework for the efficient optimization of biofuel supply chains, especially for complex supply chain models.

Combining supply chain management and modeling techniques in a single volume, the book is beneficial for graduate students who no longer need to consult subject-specific books alongside mathematical modeling textbooks. The book consists of two main parts. The first part describes the key components of biofuel supply chains, including biomass production, harvesting, collection, storage, preprocessing, conversion, transportation, and distribution. It also provides a comprehensive review of the concepts, problems, and opportunities associated with biofuel supply chains, such as types and properties of the feedstocks and fuel products, decision-making levels, sustainability concepts, uncertainty analysis and risk management, as well as integration of biomass supply chain with other supply chains. The second part focuses on modeling and optimization of biomass-to-biofuel supply chains under uncertainty, using different quantitative methods to determine optimal design.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128206409
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	11/30/2020
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mir Saman Pishvaee is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. from University of Tehran in 2012 and initiated his work as a faculty member at SIE since 2013. His research vision is concentrated mainly on Supply chain management, Robust optimization and Biofuel supply chain planning. He has published a number of book chapters and scientific articles in the field of biofuel supply chain design and planning. Till 2018, six of his papers are among the WOS highly-cited papers and he also ranked among the Top 1 percent researchers (Engineering area) in 2018 based on ISI-ESI report.

Shayan Mohseni is a PhD student in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology. He has a broad research interest in supply chain design and optimizations, particularly in biomass-based biofuel supply chains. He has successfully published four first-author journal articles covering various topics on biomass supply chains. His recent research is focused on incorporating sustainability in the design and operations of microalgae -based biofuel supply chains, dealing with uncertainty using robust optimization and stochastic programming approaches, and modeling competition and interaction between different parties in biomass supply chains with game theory-based optimization models.

Samira Bairamzadeh is currently working as a postdoc researcher in the School of Industrial Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST). She obtained her Ph.D. in industrial engineering from IUST with a thesis titled ‘A sustainable lignocellulosic biomass-to-biofuel supply chain network design under multiple uncertainties.’ Her research activity is focused on the biomass supply chain network design and optimization, robust optimization, and sustainability concepts in the biomass supply chains. She has published three first-author journal articles, covering various topics such as multi-objective robust optimization approaches, sustainability aspects, as well as supply chain management new paradigms in the design and operations of biomass to biofuel supply chains.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. An Overview of Biomass Feedstocks for Biofuel Production

2. Biomass Supply Chain Structures and Activities

3. Decision-Making Levels in Biofuel Supply Chain

4. Uncertainties in Biomass Supply Chain

5. Sustainability Concepts in Biomass Supply Chain

6. Uncertainty Modelling Approaches for Biofuel Supply Chain

7. Strategic Planning in Biofuel Supply Chain Under Uncertainty

8. Tactical Planning in Biofuel Supply Chain Under Uncertainty

9. Operational Planning in Biofuel Supply Chain Under Uncertainty

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Explores the design and optimization of biomass-to-biofuel supply chains for commercial-scale implementation of real-life, large scale, sustainable biofuel projects