Publication detail

Robust Facility Location Problem for Bio-waste Transportation

HRABEC, D. ŠOMPLÁK, R. NEVRLÝ, V. JANOŠŤÁK, F. ROSECKÝ, M. KŮDELA, J.

Original Title

Robust Facility Location Problem for Bio-waste Transportation

Type

journal article in Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

The article presents an optimisation tool for bio-waste facility allocation. The quantity of bio-waste produced in individual territorial units is a key factor for the selection of localities when constructing a new facility. Bio-waste production changes over the course of the year and differs between various types of housing developments. Separation rate is a determining factor for bio-waste production. Readiness to separate the waste reflects the total quantity of bio-waste produced. Predicting the future of bio-waste production is a complex problem, and it would be suitable to consider more developed scenarios. The introduced tool takes into consideration additional possible scenarios for production and provides a robust solution from the point of view of a locality suggestion for the construction of the processing facility. The optimisation model is based on the two-stage stochastic programming approach. The decision regarding the locality for the construction of a new facility is made during the first stage. This method is called the “Here-and-Now” approach. The results are presented in a case study for a selected region in the Czech Republic. Since changes to the legislation in 2014, municipalities are now supposed to provide the possibility to collect the bio-waste of citizens. This has caused significant growth in production – about 20% annually over the past few years. At this point, it is very complicated to estimate a future trend based on the historical data. Due to this reason, it would be appropriate to consider future bio-waste production across more scenarios. In order to enable the applicability of the tool on a large area with many nodes, it would be necessary to adapt the computation method according to its computational complexity.

Keywords

bio-waste, bio-waste treatment, facility infrastructure, mathematical model

Authors

HRABEC, D.; ŠOMPLÁK, R.; NEVRLÝ, V.; JANOŠŤÁK, F.; ROSECKÝ, M.; KŮDELA, J.

Released

1. 10. 2017

Publisher

Aidic Servizi Srl

Location

Miláno, Itálie

ISBN

978-88-95608-51-8

Book

Chemical Engineering Transactions

Edition number

61

ISBN

2283-9216

Periodical

Chemical Engineering Transactions

Year of study

2017

Number

61

State

Republic of Italy

Pages from

1093

Pages to

1098

Pages count

6

URL

http://www.aidic.it/cet/17/61/180.pdf

BibTex

@article{BUT140232,
  author="Dušan {Hrabec} and Radovan {Šomplák} and Vlastimír {Nevrlý} and František {Janošťák} and Martin {Rosecký} and Jakub {Kůdela}",
  title="Robust Facility Location Problem for Bio-waste Transportation",
  journal="Chemical Engineering Transactions",
  year="2017",
  volume="2017",
  number="61",
  pages="1093--1098",
  doi="10.3303/CET1761180",
  issn="2283-9216",
  url="http://www.aidic.it/cet/17/61/180.pdf"
}