Design and scheduling of agricultural biomass supply chain for a cellulosic ethanol plant

The overall objective of this dissertation is to design and schedule a highly constrained agricultural biomass supply chain to meet the daily biomass demand of a commercial-sized cellulosic ethanol plant at the minimum delivery cost possible. To this end, an integrated simulation/optimization model...

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Main Author: Ebadian, Mahmood
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44439