Work package 1. Fundamental research development of scientific methods for strategic design and management of supply chain for production and distribution of biodiesel (BSCs) using first and second generation bio-resources providing sustainability in respect of environmental, economic and social criteria taking into account needs of the regions of liquid fuels for the transport in the context of certain and uncertain data

 

Research Tasks:

T-1.1. Development of mathematical method for analysis, strategic design and management of BSC for biodiesel production providing for sustainability in respect of environmental, economic and social criteria accounting for needs of the regions of liquid fuels for the transport in the context of certain data.

Research goal. Creation of mathematical method for analysis, strategic design, and management of BSC for biodiesel production able to meet multiple objectives (environmental, economic and social) and taking into account the needs of regions of liquid fuels in the context of certain data and using first and second generations bio-resources.

Description: 1) Development of mathematical models for description of environmental, economic and social assessments for different stages of life cycle of production and distribution of biodiesel using first and second generations bio-resources; 2) Synthesis of BSC schemes and their mathematical descriptions and mathematical models of BSC of biodiesel production; 3) Method for analysis of the BSC performance in the context of certain data for bio-resources supplying and certain data for distribution of biodiesel; 4) Mathematical formulation of the problem for optimal strategic design of BSC in terms of mathematical programming and verification of developed method for strategic design of BSC on test examples using software packages Mathcad and GAMS.

T-1.2. Creation of mathematical method for analysis, strategic design and management of BSC for finding the trade-off areas in line the concept for sustainable development based on mathematical models including uncertainties.

Research goal. Creating the mathematical method for analysis, strategic design and management of BSC by finding the Pareto area for trade-off simultaneously satisfying the three criteria (environmental, economic and social) in the under uncertainties.

Description: 1) Mathematical descriptions of the environmental, economic and social assessments for different stages of the life cycle of the production and distribution of biodiesel using first and second generations bio-resources in the context of uncertain data for the bio-resources and the distribution of the biodiesel; 2) Mathematical models for description of BSC of biodiesel production in the context of uncertain data for the bio-resources and the distribution of biodiesel; 3) Mathematical formulation of the problem for optimal designing of BSC for production and distribution of biodiesel in the terms of mathematical programming in the context of uncertain data and multiple assessment criteria; 4) Demonstration of the effectiveness of the developed method for strategic design of BSC using the software packages Mathcad and GAMS.

T-1.3. Creation of test procedures demonstrating the efficiency of the developed methods and approaches on a real case study from Bulgaria.

Research goal. Development of a test software code for realization of the results obtained in T-1.1., and T-1.2. for demonstration of the efficiency of the proposed methods for the strategic design of BSC by solution both, the problems from the literature and the real case studies from Bulgaria.

Description: 1) Creating a software platform performing the methods obtained in T-1.1. and T-1.2., using the software packages Mathcad and GAMS; 2) Preparation test examples with data from the available literature for each problem. Collecting real data needed to synthesis of BSC from Bulgarian regions and their prices; 3) Numerical experiments with real data for Bulgarian case studies in order to derive the important practical conclusions.