Eriksson, Anders
- Department of Energy and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Stumps are a possible source of biomass for energy production, but stump extraction is still only a small scale operation and no standardized supply chain has evolved. In order to evaluate possible supply chains, we have developed a discrete-event simulation model for cost-efficient analysis of delivery costs and machine utilization in different scenarios and system configurations. In this new and undeveloped business, simulation results can be used as decision support in planning stump fuel supply. The simulation model is currently being extended to include weather-driven modules for fuel quality changes during storage and the daily fuel demand of heat and power plants.
Keywords
Discrete-event simulation; logging residues; bioenergy; storage; transport; chipping; modelling; fuel quality
Published in
Title: Proceedings of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Conference
Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), DEC 06-09, 2015, Huntington Beach, CA
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Bioenergy
Transport Systems and Logistics
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2015.7408466
- ISBN: 978-1-4673-9741-4
- eISBN: 978-1-4673-9743-8
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/73393