標題: Forest biomass-to-biofuel factory location problem with multiple objectives considering environmental uncertainties and social enterprises
作者: Lin, Chun-Cheng
Kang, Jia-Rong
Huang, Guan-Lin
Liu, Wan-Yu
工業工程與管理學系
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
關鍵字: Facility location problem;Biomass-to-biofuel factory;Social enterprise;Sustainability;Fuzzy multi-objective linear programming;Fuzzy theory
公開日期: 20-七月-2020
摘要: Forest biomass energy enjoys merit of large production, renewability, and clean combustion. However, most related works focused on only the objective of minimization of cost or pollution, but seldom on the social aspect. Social enterprise provides business models that cope with social or environmental problems, e.g., offering employment opportunities in disadvantaged areas. Therefore, this work considers social enterprises and environmental uncertainties in a forest biomass-to-biofuel factory location problem with multiple objectives, which determines whether to open forest biomass-to-biofuel factories at their potential locations to meet the energy demand and other practical constraints. Aside from minimization of cost and carbon emissions, the concerned problem additionally considers the objective of maximizing the job offers provided by opening factories from the social enterprise aspect. Additionally, based on the fuzzy theory, this problem includes the following environmental uncertainties: uncertain number of inventory days, uncertain job offers per unit of surplus factory scale, uncertain biomass production amount, and uncertain biofuel demand due to the price fluctuation of fossil fuels. This work employs the GIS to determine candidate locations of acquiring forest biomass and opening factories, and then solves the problem by fuzzy multi-objective linear programming. Through simulation, we observe the conflict among objectives, compare the differences between the proposed method and previous methods, and analyze the key factors that affect practical implementation. Simulation results show that when the total biofuel demand exceeds 200 million liters per year, the proposed method provides 16% more job offers than the previous method that focused on only cost minimization. (c) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121327
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/155173
ISSN: 0959-6526
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121327
期刊: JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume: 262
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