Clusters with minimum transportation cost to centers: a case study in corn production management

DOI10.3390/G8020024MaRDI QIDQ1656940zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sirilak Phonin, Chulin Likasiri, Sittipong Dankrakul

Publication date 13 August 2018

Published in Games (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3390/g8020024

zbMATH Keywords

capacitated vehicle routing problems with centersclustering problemsnorthern Thailandwaste management system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transportation, logistics and supply chain management (90B06) Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10) Environmental economics (natural resource models, harvesting, pollution, etc.) (91B76)

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Summary: In Northern Thailand, the size and topographical structure of farmland makes it necessary for operators of small-scale waste management systems to be able to reach their clients in an effective manner. Over the past decades, corn contract farming has increased, and the chief method for eliminating waste from these farms has chiefly been open burning on the fields, which produces enormous amounts of greenhouse gases (GHG) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). To find a way to reduce GHG emissions in the corn production system, this work focuses on finding clusters with minimum transportation time from waste disposal centers. To solve the clustering problems, four models are created and solved on AIMMS and MATLAB. Simulation results indicate that the number of clients essentially affects the performance of the procedure. The case studies are on corn production management in Chiang Mai, the region's economic capital, as well as in 9 provinces in Northern Thailand, including Chiang Mai, whose combined corn production comprises 32.73 percent of the national production. With roughly 15\% of the corn cobs and husks involved in the study, we found that by changing the waste elimination process, the total CO\(_2\) emissions can be reduced by up to 12,008.40 tons per year in Chiang Mai and up to 180,198.14 tons per year in the 9 provinces of Northern Thailand.

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Uses Software

• Matlab
• AIMMS

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