Supply chain designs and management for biocrude production via wastewater treatment

Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 139-147

  Ekşioǧlu, Sandra D ^a   Palak, Gökçe ^a   Mondala, Andro ^b   Greenwood, Allen ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biocrude; biofuels; optimization simulation model; supply chain design; supply chain management

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIOCRUDE; BIOMASS SUPPLY; CARBON-TO-NITROGEN RATIO; DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION MODEL; LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS; MISSISSIPPI; MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMS; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; OPTIMIZATION-SIMULATION; SUGAR PLANTS; SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN; WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIOFUELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; DESIGN; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

AVAILABILITY;

EID: 84872682237     PISSN: 19447442     EISSN: 19447450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ep.10605     Document Type: Article

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