An approach of transportation cost optimization in biomass collection for biopower plant

作者：Li Shuangjie; Sun Jingchun^*; Zhao Yuan

来源：Energy Education Science and Technology Part A: Energy Science and Research , 2012, 29(2): 761-770.

• Biopower
• Biomass
• Transportation cost
• Optimization
• Energy

In order to optimize the transportation cost, three common methods utilized in agri-biomass collection-centralized, decentralized and hybrid, are analyzed in this research based on the characteristics of agri-biomass resources. Firstly, assumptions on agri-biomass resources, cost structure, collection area as well as its borders are given to describe the problem of optimizing the transportation cost. Secondly, the concept of envelope circle which is embedded in the collection area is derived and introduced to figure out the corresponding collection parts where centralized and decentralized methods are applied respectively, which helps specifically define the hybrid collection method in the whole collection area. Thirdly, the hybrid method is shown to be an effective method to reduce the transportation cost both in theoretical analysis and in practice based on a case study of a bio-power plant in China.

• 出版日期2012-7
• 单位西安交通大学