Economic Optimization of Sawmill Residues Collection for Bioenergy Conversion

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Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 857-862

  Zamar, David S ^a   Gopaluni, Bhushan ^a   Sokhansanj, Shahab ^a,b   Ebadian, Mahmood ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

renewable energy systems; robust estimation; routing algorithms; stochastic approximation; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; PAPER AND PULP INDUSTRY; PAPER AND PULP MILLS; PULP; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; SAWING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VEHICLE ROUTING; VEHICLES; WOOD PRODUCTS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA , CANADA; PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY; RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS; ROBUST ESTIMATION; STOCHASTIC APPROXIMATIONS; STOCHASTIC VEHICLE ROUTING; UNCERTAINTY; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

SAWMILLS;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PAPER INDUSTRY; SAW MILLS;

EID: 84991037996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24058963     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.07.297     Document Type: Conference Paper

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