Central Control for Optimized Herbaceous Feedstock Delivery to a Biorefinery from Satellite Storage Locations
| dc.contributor.author | Resop, Jonathan P. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Cundiff, John S. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Grisso, Robert D. | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-23T18:50:43Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2022-06-23T18:50:43Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-06-17 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2022-06-23T12:12:18Z | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The delivery of herbaceous feedstock from satellite storage locations (SSLs) to a biorefinery or preprocessing depot is a logistics problem that must be optimized before a new bioenergy industry can be realized. Both load-out productivity, defined as the loading of 5 × 4 round bales into a 20-bale rack at the SSL, and truck productivity, defined as the hauling of bales from the SSLs to the biorefinery, must be maximized. Productivity (Mg/d) is maximized and cost (USD/Mg) is minimized when approximately the same number the loads is received each day. To achieve this, a central control model is proposed, where a feedstock manager at the biorefinery can dispatch a truck to any SSL where a load will be available when the truck arrives. Simulations of this central control model for different numbers of simultaneous load-out operations were performed using a database of potential production fields within a 50 km radius of a theoretical biorefinery in Gretna, VA. The minimum delivered cost (i.e., load-out plus truck) was achieved with nine load-outs and a fleet of eight trucks. The estimated cost was 11.24 and 11.62 USD/Mg of annual biorefinery capacity (assuming 24/7 operation over 48 wk/y for a total of approximately 150,000 Mg/y) for the load-out and truck, respectively. The two costs were approximately equal, reinforcing the desirability of a central control to maximize the productivity of these two key operations simultaneously. | en |
| dc.description.version | Published version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Resop, J.P.; Cundiff, J.S.; Grisso, R.D. Central Control for Optimized Herbaceous Feedstock Delivery to a Biorefinery from Satellite Storage Locations. AgriEngineering 2022, 4, 544-565. | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3390/agriengineering4020037 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/110906 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | MDPI | en |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | herbaceous feedstock | en |
| dc.subject | spatial modeling | en |
| dc.subject | spatial analysis | en |
| dc.subject | biomass logistics | en |
| dc.subject | biomass load-out | en |
| dc.subject | biomass hauling | en |
| dc.subject | satellite storage locations | en |
| dc.title | Central Control for Optimized Herbaceous Feedstock Delivery to a Biorefinery from Satellite Storage Locations | en |
| dc.title.serial | AgriEngineering | en |
| dc.type | Article - Refereed | en |
| dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |