Optimal running and planning of a biomass-based energy production process

Maurizio Bruglieri and Leo Liberti

Energy Policy, 2008, vol. 36, issue 7, 2430-2438

Abstract: We propose mathematical programming models for solving problems arising from planning and running an energy production process based on burning biomasses. The models take into account different aspects of the problem: determination of the biomasses to produce and/or buy, transportation decisions to convey the materials to the respective plants, and plant site locations. Whereas the "running model" is linear, we propose two "planning models", both of which are mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems. We show that a spatial branch-and-bound type algorithm applied to them is guaranteed to converge to an exact optimum in a finite number of steps.

Date: 2008
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