Model-size reduction techniques for large-scale biomass production and supply networks

Hon Loong Lam, Jiří Jaromír Klemeš and Zdravko Kravanja

Energy, 2011, vol. 36, issue 8, 4599-4608

Abstract: This paper is concerned with developing several model-size reduction techniques for the analysis of large-scale renewable production and supply networks. They are (i) Reducing the connectivity in a biomass supply chain network, (ii) Eliminating unnecessary variables and constraints, (iii) Merging the collection centres. The proposed model-size reduction techniques brought computational time improvements of several magnitudes compared, with the high performance linear system solution techniques and still with a little loss in accuracy. When the methods are combined the time reductions are more significant. A proposed procedure for combining the methods can be implemented for any supply chain model with a large number of components.

Keywords: Biomass supply chain; MILP; Model-size reduction techniques (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.03.036

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