Prerequisites of efficient decentralized waste heat recovery and energy storage in production planning

Konstantin Biel () and Christoph H. Glock ()
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Konstantin Biel: Technische Universität Darmstadt
Christoph H. Glock: Technische Universität Darmstadt

Journal of Business Economics, 2017, vol. 87, issue 1, No 3, 72 pages

Abstract: Abstract Following the scarcity of resources, rising energy prices, and an increasing awareness of the role manufacturing plays in the generation of greenhouse gas emissions, the usage of energy has more and more been considered in research on production planning and scheduling in recent years. Time-varying energy prices, which have been introduced to penalize energy usage during peak-demand periods and which are supposed to smooth energy demand, have added a new aspect to this stream of research. This article studies how the integration of a waste heat recovery system, which can convert industrial waste heat into electrical energy, along with an electrical energy storage system can balance the positive and negative effects of energy peak prices on the production plan in a serial multi-stage production system. After developing an appropriate model, we investigate how the use of the waste heat recovery system and the electrical energy storage system impact production planning. In a numerical analysis, we investigate under which conditions the recovery of waste heat combined with the opportunity to store energy provides practitioners with an efficient tool to lower total energy usage and to better react to time-varying energy prices, and thus to reduce total energy cost.

Keywords: Energy efficiency; Sustainable manufacturing system; Energy usage; Production planning; Waste heat recovery; Electrical energy storage system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L6 M11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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