An Overview of OR Models for Biomass Supply Chains

Birome Holo Ba, Christian Prins, Caroline Prodhon

2014

Abstract

The biorefineries of the future will critically depend on efficient supply chains to guarantee continuous flows of biomass while minimizing logistic costs and environmental impacts. OR techniques can be very useful to help decision makers to model, evaluate and optimize such complex and large-scale supply chains at the design stage. This paper provides an overview of the OR models for this recent research domain and proposes a core-model (mathematical program) for the tactical decision level.

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Ba B., Prins C. and Prodhon C. (2014). An Overview of OR Models for Biomass Supply Chains . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-758-017-8, pages 174-182. DOI: 10.5220/0004777001740182


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@conference{icores14,
author={Birome Holo Ba and Christian Prins and Caroline Prodhon},
title={An Overview of OR Models for Biomass Supply Chains},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2014},
pages={174-182},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004777001740182},
isbn={978-989-758-017-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - An Overview of OR Models for Biomass Supply Chains
SN - 978-989-758-017-8
AU - Ba B.
AU - Prins C.
AU - Prodhon C.
PY - 2014
SP - 174
EP - 182
DO - 10.5220/0004777001740182