Building evolution model of supply chain networks could be helpful to understand its development law. However, specific characteristics and attributes of real supply chains are often neglected in existing evolution models. This work proposes a new evolution model of supply chain with manufactures as the core, based on external market demand and internal competition-cooperation. The evolution mo...

With the rapid depletion of conventional natural gas resources in China and the increasing demand for natural gas as well as the improvement in the exploitation technologies of natural gas, the development of unconventional natural gas resources is rather urgent and feasible day by day and possible at the same time. However, the development of unconventional natural gas fields in China started ...

Abstract Social capital is an important theoretical lens for explaining interorganizational relationships and building resilience in supply networks. This study corroborates this perspective, aiming to identify which attributes of social contribute the development public administration networks how they combine explanation. A qualitative descriptive research was carried out, using interviews wi...

Corn production, and its associated inputs, is a relatively large source of greenhouse gas emissions and uses significant amounts of water and land, thus contributing to climate change, fossil fuel depletion, local air pollutants, and local water scarcity. As large consumers of this corn, corporations in the ethanol and animal protein industries are increasingly assessing and reporting sustaina...

Models that aim to optimize the design of supply chain networks have gained more interest in the supply chain literature. Mixed-integer linear programming and discrete-event simulation are widely used for such an optimization problem. We present a hybrid approach to support decisions for supply chain network design using a combination of analytical and discrete-event simulation models. The prop...

The possibilities of balancing gas supply and demand with a green gas supply chain were analyzed. The considered supply chain is based on co-digestion of cow manure and maize, the produced biogas is upgraded to (Dutch) natural gas standards. The applicability of modeling yearly gas demand data in a geographical region by Fourier analysis was investigated. For a sine shape gas demand, three scen...

introduction: today, with development of various industries, the adverse events originated from explosion and emission of toxic and chemical substances have increased. these events may cause serious environmental problems that threaten human health and safety. therefore, knowledge about the risk of toxic substances from industrial facilities is essential. although, chlorine is extensively utili...

In the classical maximal flow problem, the objective is to maximize the supply to a single sink in a capacitated network. In this paper we consider general capacitated networks with multiple sinks: the objective is to optimize a general "concave" preference relation on the set of feasible supply vectors. We show that an optimal solution can be obtained by a marginal allocation procedure. An eff...