Network Flow Based Model Applied to Sources, Sinks and Optimal Transport of Combustible Waste

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26210%2F17%3APU124897" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26210/17:PU124897 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.aidic.it/cet/17/61/163.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.aidic.it/cet/17/61/163.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3303/CET1761163" target="_blank" >10.3303/CET1761163</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Network Flow Based Model Applied to Sources, Sinks and Optimal Transport of Combustible Waste

Original language description

Waste management has been an expanding field, which demands continuous enhancement by waste transportation and treatment capacities optimisation. Reuse and recycling is a preferred option as much as it is applicable. A new strategy is proposed and analysed compared to the current state. Presently the waste treatment is a key information for effectivity assessment of a newly designed system. The known parameters are usually: production (sources) and processing (sinks) of given combustible waste in specific territory unit (node) from considered area and transportation between these nodes. For real life data analysis, available information is production and different ways of treatment (according to the waste hierarchy). Transportation between the nodes is not always evident, which can lead to a lack of knowledge of the total cost and expenses for individual producers. To gather information, it is necessary to obtain and assess available data. This research presents a tool for pre-processed data where the potential for combustible waste suitable for energy recovery and/or recycling in pre-defined nodes is determined. The tool is based on the reverse logistic problem, which is a specific case of supply chain model. The objective is to optimise the system of network flow of unusable products from the producer to the treatment facility. It describes an approach to determine the flow of the network with the utilisation of uncertainties, arising from incomplete or unknown information. Decision-making is done in relation to transportation distance criterion. This criterion naturally prefers closer treatment facilities instead of more distant. In order to reflect the uncertainty in the decision-making process, a probability function that links preferences for the particular type of waste is implemented. Developed mathematical model gives an estimation of mean value for a decision variable (potential for energy recovery) and also provides additional information about variabilit

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10103 - Statistics and probability

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000456" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000456: Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory (SPIL)</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Chemical Engineering Transactions

ISSN

2283-9216

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2017

Issue of the periodical within the volume

61

Country of publishing house

IT - ITALY

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

991-996

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85030771880