Opportunities and challenges in sustainable supply chain: An operations research perspective

AP Barbosa-Póvoa, C Da Silva, A Carvalho - European journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Sustainable Supply Chain have become a cornerstone to any company that seeks
to achieve sustainable goals. A company's image is no longer related to the old paradigm of …

Challenges and opportunities in improving the production of bio-ethanol

J Baeyens, Q Kang, L Appels, R Dewil, Y Lv… - Progress in Energy and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Bio-ethanol, as a clean and renewable fuel, is gaining increasing attention, mostly through
its major environmental benefits. It can be produced from different kinds of renewable …

An integrated sustainable bio-fuel and bio-energy supply chain: A novel approach based on DEMATEL and fuzzy-random robust flexible programming with Me …

A Mondal, BK Giri, SK Roy - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The viability of the Indian government's green initiative to blend 20% fuel grade ethanol with
gasoline is investigated by modelling a sustainable integrated bio-fuel and bio-energy …

Bioethanol facility location selection using best-worst method

S Kheybari, M Kazemi, J Rezaei - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
One of the major factors in the success of renewable energy is finding a proper location for
production facilities. At a national level, different parts of a country (eg provinces) can be …

Biomass supply chain environmental and socio-economic analysis: 40-Years comprehensive review of methods, decision issues, sustainability challenges, and the …

SM Zahraee, N Shiwakoti, P Stasinopoulos - Biomass and Bioenergy, 2020 - Elsevier
Biomass is a valuable renewable source of energy as an alternative to fossil fuels. The main
barriers in biomass and biofuel development are feedstock high cost, lack of reliable supply …

Biomass supply chain network design: An optimization-oriented review and analysis

H Ghaderi, MS Pishvaee, A Moini - Industrial crops and products, 2016 - Elsevier
Optimal network design is a key factor in the enhancement of the economic, environmental,
and social performance and efficiency of the biomass supply chain (BSC), and this is why it …

Oriented pyrolysis of biomass for hydrogen-rich gas and biochar production: an energy, environment, and economic assessment based on life cycle assessment …

X Li, Z Chen, P Liu, Z Wang, T Sun, S Wu, Y Wu… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study aimed to analyze a technology of hydrogen-rich gas from full-component oriented
pyrolysis (FCOP) of biomass using energy, economic, and environmental life cycle …

Designing a sustainable bioethanol supply chain network: A combination of machine learning and meta-heuristic algorithms

M Momenitabar, ZD Ebrahimi, P Ghasemi - Industrial crops and products, 2022 - Elsevier
Bioethanol demands have increased during the last decade due to unexpected events
worldwide. It is among the renewable energy sources that are utilized to replace fossil-fuel …

A sustainable second-generation biodiesel supply chain network design problem under risk

R Babazadeh, J Razmi, MS Pishvaee, M Rabbani - Omega, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a multi-objective possibilistic programming model to design a second-
generation biodiesel supply chain network under risk. The proposed model minimizes the …

A multi-objective robust possibilistic programming approach to sustainable switchgrass-based bioethanol supply chain network design

H Ghaderi, A Moini, MS Pishvaee - Journal of cleaner production, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a multi-objective robust possibilistic programming model for the design
of a sustainable switchgrass-based bioethanol supply chain network under the epistemic …