Publication detail

Circular economy implementation in waste management network design problem: a case study

HRABEC, D. KŮDELA, J. ŠOMPLÁK, R. NEVRLÝ, V. POPELA, P.

Original Title

Circular economy implementation in waste management network design problem: a case study

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

The paper presents a new approach to support the strategic decision-making in the area of municipal solid waste management applying modern circular economy principles. A robust two-stage integer non-linear program is developed. The primary goal tends to reduce the waste production. The generated waste should be preferably recycled as much as possible and the resultant residual waste might be used for energy recovery. Only some waste residues are appropriate for landfilling. The aim is to propose the near-optimal waste allocation for its suitable processing as well as waste transportation plan at an operational level. In addition, the key strategical decisions on waste treatment facilities location must be made. Since waste production is very often hard to predict, it is modeled as an uncertain decision-dependent quantity. To support the circular economy ideas, advertising and pricing principles are introduced and applied. Due to the size of available real-world data and complexity of the designed program, the presented model is linearized and uncertainty is handled by a robust optimization methodology. The model, data, and algorithm are implemented in MATLAB and Julia, using the state-of-the-art solvers. The computational result is a set of decisions providing a trade-off between the average performance and the immunization against the worst-case conditions.

Keywords

Circular economy; Robust optimization; Facility location; Waste treatment; Decision-dependent production; Network design

Authors

HRABEC, D.; KŮDELA, J.; ŠOMPLÁK, R.; NEVRLÝ, V.; POPELA, P.

Released

5. 6. 2019

ISBN

1435-246X

Periodical

Central European Journal of Operations Research

Year of study

1

Number

1

State

Federal Republic of Germany

Pages from

1

Pages to

18

Pages count

18

URL

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-019-00626-z

BibTex

@article{BUT157311,
  author="Dušan {Hrabec} and Jakub {Kůdela} and Radovan {Šomplák} and Vlastimír {Nevrlý} and Pavel {Popela}",
  title="Circular economy implementation in waste management network design problem: a case study",
  journal="Central European Journal of Operations Research",
  year="2019",
  volume="1",
  number="1",
  pages="1--18",
  doi="10.1007/s10100-019-00626-z",
  issn="1435-246X",
  url="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-019-00626-z"
}