Integrate crop simulation (BioCro) and biomass supply chain optimziation (BioScope) models to provide decision support on strategic planning of biomass supply chain configurations considering spatio-temporal changes of crop yield and other uncertainties.
- Multi-year biomass supply chain optimization considering spatio-temporal changes:
- Factors to be considered: changes of crop yield, cropland usage rate, and transportation costs.
- Stochastic BioScope model development: Multi-year stochastic optimizaiton model to minimize expected provision costs
- BioCro model: multi-year grid based 0.25 degree yield prediction of Miscanthus
- 15-Year planning span
- Biomass resources: Miscanthus, Corn stover, and mixed feedstock provision
- Cost comparison of these three scenarios