Publication detail

Multi-Commodity Network Flow Model Applied to Waste Processing Cost Analysis for Producers, Chemical Engineering Transactions

ŠOMPLÁK, R. TOUŠ, M. PAVLAS, M. GREGOR, J. POPELA, P. RYCHTÁŘ, A.

Original Title

Multi-Commodity Network Flow Model Applied to Waste Processing Cost Analysis for Producers, Chemical Engineering Transactions

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

In this paper, we deal with a network flow problem where waste is transported from producers (municipalities) through pre-processing facilities to its final treatment. The results obtained for minimum total treatment cost including transport provide us with optimal total waste flow along edges (roads, railways) in a selected region. However, the information about the waste flow through the network from a particular producer and related processing cost is often lost due to the merging and splitting streams in vertices. This limits the practical utilization of the results. This shortage can be solved by a secondary network flow problem where capacities of edges are given by results from total waste flow problem and waste from different producers is modelled by new variables. The needed constraints are introduced and new suitable criterion is specified. The model follows principle ideas of multi-commodity network flow modelling. It is implemented in GAMS and presented through a case study.

Keywords

multi-commodity; waste; residual waste; cost minimiyation; routing

Authors

ŠOMPLÁK, R.; TOUŠ, M.; PAVLAS, M.; GREGOR, J.; POPELA, P.; RYCHTÁŘ, A.

RIV year

2015

Released

23. 8. 2015

Publisher

AIDIC Serviyi Srl

Location

Milano, Itálie

ISBN

978-88-95608-36-5

Book

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction (PRES 2015)

ISBN

2283-9216

Periodical

Chemical Engineering Transactions

State

Republic of Italy

Pages from

733

Pages to

738

Pages count

6

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT116008,
  author="Radovan {Šomplák} and Michal {Touš} and Martin {Pavlas} and Jiří {Gregor} and Pavel {Popela} and Adam {Rychtář}",
  title="Multi-Commodity Network Flow Model Applied to Waste Processing Cost Analysis for Producers, Chemical Engineering Transactions",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction (PRES 2015)",
  year="2015",
  journal="Chemical Engineering Transactions",
  pages="733--738",
  publisher="AIDIC Serviyi Srl",
  address="Milano, Itálie",
  doi="10.3303/CET1545123",
  isbn="978-88-95608-36-5",
  issn="2283-9216"
}