title: Design and modeling of sustainable bioethanol supply chain by minimizing the total ecological footprint in life cycle perspective.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to develop a model for designing the most sustainable bioethanol supply chain. Taking into consideration of the possibility of multiple-feedstock, multiple transportation modes, multiple alternative technologies, multiple transport patterns and multiple waste disposal manners in bioethanol systems, this study developed a model for designing the most sustainable bioethanol supply chain by minimizing the total ecological footprint under some prerequisite constraints including satisfying the goal of the stakeholders', the limitation of resources and energy, the capacity of warehouses, the market demand and some technological constraints. And an illustrative case of multiple-feedstock bioethanol system has been studied by the proposed method, and a global best solution by which the total ecological footprint is the minimal has been obtained.
authors: CESQA (Quality and Environmental Research Centre), University of Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering, Via Marzolo 9, 35131 Padova, Italy; School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China.
authors: Jingzheng
authors: J
authors: Ren
authors: CESQA (Quality and Environmental Research Centre), University of Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering, Via Marzolo 9, 35131 Padova, Italy.
authors: Alessandro
authors: A
authors: Manzardo
authors: CESQA (Quality and Environmental Research Centre), University of Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering, Via Marzolo 9, 35131 Padova, Italy.
authors: Sara
authors: S
authors: Toniolo
authors: CESQA (Quality and Environmental Research Centre), University of Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering, Via Marzolo 9, 35131 Padova, Italy. Electronic address: scipioni@unipd.it.
authors: Antonio
authors: A
authors: Scipioni
authors: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China.
authors: Shiyu
authors: S
authors: Tan
authors: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China.
authors: Lichun
authors: L
authors: Dong
authors: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China.
authors: Suzhao
authors: S
authors: Gao
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D056804:Biofuels; D002681:China; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods; D004463:Ecology / Q000379:methods*; D017753:Ecosystem; D000431:Ethanol / Q000737:chemistry*; D007221:Industry; D002365:Manihot / Q000378:metabolism; D014908:Triticum / Q000378:metabolism; D003313:Zea mays / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels; D000431:Ethanol
keywords: Bioethanol; Ecological footprint; Supply chain; Sustainability