Economic optimisation of a UK advanced biofuel supply chain

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 41, Issue , 2012, Pages 57-72

  Akgul, Ozlem ^a   Shah, Nilay ^b   Papageorgiou, Lazaros G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomass; Ethanol; MILP; Supply chain optimization

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL SUPPLY CHAINS; ENERGY SUPPLIES; ETHANOL PRODUCTION; FOOD CROPS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; LIQUID BIOFUELS; MILP; OPTIMISATIONS; PETROLEUM FUELS; SECOND GENERATION; STRATEGIC DESIGN; SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZATION; SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES;

BIOMASS; BLENDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; ETHANOL; OPTIMIZATION; SUPPLY CHAINS;

BIOFUELS;

BIOFUEL; BIOMASS POWER; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ETHANOL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND USE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY; SUSTAINABILITY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84859514767     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2012.01.040     Document Type: Article

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