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Sustainable Supply Chain Management for Process Industry

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 9546

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Vasiliki Kazantzi

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University of Thessaly, Geopolis campus, Larissa 41500, Greece
Interests: process synthesis; property-based integration; optimization and sustainable design; supply chain management; logistics; risk management; operations management
Prof. Dr. Hon Loong Lam

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Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, B34, 43500 Semenyih, Malaysia
Interests: process Integration, biomass utilisation and green supply chain synthesis
Prof. Dr. Raymond R. Tan

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Department of Chemical Engineering, De La Salle University, Manila 0922, Philippines
Interests: process integration; mathematical programming; machine learning; carbon management
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The aim of this Special Issue, “Sustainable Supply Chain Management for the Process Industry”, is to address critical aspects in strategically developing, designing, planning, controlling, and managing a supply chain (SC) for the process industry under sustainable conditions. Particular objectives are to highlight contemporary issues in developing a sustainable SC and to propose new approaches for managing the inevitable uncertainty inherent in SC operations. Additional issues to be explored within this context include efficient and effective solutions to address conflicting performance objectives emanating from the variety of operations and their objectives in a SC with particular emphasis on sustainability considerations.

A number of key themes that may be considered (but are not be limited to) are the following:

  • Supply chain strategies and sustainability
  • Sustainable product design and product life cycle analysis
  • Value chain and sustainability
  • Environmentally conscious manufacturing
  • Sustainable global distribution of products
  • Green procurement
  • Sustainable and reverse logistics operations
  • Control issues in sustainable supply chains
  • Value of information in sustainable supply chains
  • Supply chain economics and circular economy
  • Integration perspectives in supply chains and decision making for sustainability

Dr. Vasiliki Kazantzi
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sustainable supply chains
  • reverse logistics
  • value chain
  • sustainable product design
  • life cycle
  • circular economy
  • sustainable manufacturing
  • green procurement
  • value of information

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A Diverse and Sustainable Biodiesel Supply Chain Optimisation Model Based on Properties Integration
by Chun Hsion Lim, Wei Xin Chua, Yi Wen Pang, Bing Shen How, Wendy Pei Qin Ng, Sin Yong Teng, Wei Dong Leong, Sue Lin Ngan and Hon Loong Lam
Sustainability 2020, 12(20), 8400; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208400 - 13 Oct 2020
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Producing sustainable biodiesel from oil crops has been a great challenge, especially for oil crops plantations that involve various small and medium stakeholders. Differences in plantation activities and environments create a unique sustainability profile for each oil crop that may impose more sustainability [...] Read more.
Producing sustainable biodiesel from oil crops has been a great challenge, especially for oil crops plantations that involve various small and medium stakeholders. Differences in plantation activities and environments create a unique sustainability profile for each oil crop that may impose more sustainability issues such as deforestation problems in oil palm plantations. This paper embraced the unique sustainability index profile of each oil crop, and an investigation was performed to evaluate the feasibility of integrating multiple oil crops into the existing biodiesel refinery to improve its economic and sustainability performances. The selection of the process feed is proposed to be based on oil crop properties such as iodine value, peroxide value and saturated and unsaturated fatty acid contents. The sustainability profiles considered in the study include deforestation, oil yield, fertiliser impact, water impact and carbon footprint. Case studies demonstrated that a more balanced sustainability index profile could be achieved at a higher production cost—from USD 6.43 billion·y−1 in a cost-saving-centric solution to USD 39.90 billion·y−1 in a sustainability-improvement-centric solution. The study provided excellent insight into the impact on production cost to achieve sustainability which can help stakeholders to evaluate the feasibility of integrating multiple oil crops in the system. Full article
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Synthesis of Sustainable Circular Economy in Palm Oil Industry Using Graph-Theoretic Method
by Jason Yi Juang Yeo, Bing Shen How, Sin Yong Teng, Wei Dong Leong, Wendy Pei Qin Ng, Chun Hsion Lim, Sue Lin Ngan, Jaka Sunarso and Hon Loong Lam
Sustainability 2020, 12(19), 8081; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12198081 - 30 Sep 2020
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Huge generation of oil palm biomass has stimulated the development of biorefineries for synthesis of bioproducts. By targeting the palm oil industry and the biorefineries as the consumers of these products, a sustainable circular economy can be created by recycling the biomass wastes [...] Read more.
Huge generation of oil palm biomass has stimulated the development of biorefineries for synthesis of bioproducts. By targeting the palm oil industry and the biorefineries as the consumers of these products, a sustainable circular economy can be created by recycling the biomass wastes to the said consumers. To evaluate the techno-economic feasibility of the sustainable circular economy, a mathematical model demonstrating the biomass network with consideration of recycling is developed in this work. Besides, Process Graph (P-graph) is incorporated to perform the combinatorial optimization of the biomass network, which targets three common resources: fertilizer, steam, and electricity for regeneration and recycling. Although the result shows that the linear economy model is preferred in terms of profitability, the circular economy model shows potential in reducing 39.292% of the imported steam and 13.469% of the imported electricity, while being 0.642% lower in terms of the gross profit. Three scenarios are then proposed to identify the potential bottleneck that can hinder the implementation of the sustainable circular economy approach, with the aid of sensitivity analysis. This work is expected to benefit the biomass-based industry sectors and the policymakers on future development and transition to the sustainable circular economy. Full article
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