Strategic Planning for the Sustainable Production of Biofuels

Strategic Planning for the Sustainable Production of Biofuels presents several optimization models for the design and planning of sustainable biorefinery supply chains, including issues surrounding the potential of biomass feedstocks in multiple harvesting sites, availability and seasonality of biomass resources, different potential geographical locations for processing plants that produce multiple products using diverse production technologies, economies of scale for production technologies, demands and prices of multiple products, locations of storage facilities, and a number of transportation modes. Sustainability considerations are incorporated into the proposed models by including simultaneous economic, environmental and social performance in the evaluation of the supply chain designs. - Covers different optimization models for the strategic planning of biorefining systems - Includes the GAMS and MATLAB codes for solving various problems - Considers sustainability criteria in the presented models - Presents different approaches for obtained trade-off solutions - Provides general software that can be used for solving different problems

José María Ponce-Ortega is a full Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico. He obtained his Ph.D. and Master degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Technology of Celaya (Mexico). He previously held posts as a postdoctoral researcher at Texas A&M University, USA, and as a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Prof. Ponce-Ortega has published over 300 papers, 4 books, and 50 book chapters. He has also supervised 25 Ph.D. and 40 Master students, and has worked on 15 funded research projects totaling approximately $US 1,000,000.00. He is a member of the editorial boards of Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy and Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability, and a subject editor for the Sustainable Production and Consumption journal, as well as a member of the National Research System of Mexico. Prof. Ponce-Ortega's research is in the areas of optimization of chemical processes, sustainable design, energy, mass, water and property integration, and supply chain optimization.