Design of Reverse Logistics Network for Waste Tire Incineration in Cement Factories

Year 2023, , 1 - 11, 27.03.2023

Müjde Erol Genevois , Merva Dinç

https://doi.org/10.2339/politeknik.644996

Abstract

This study focuses on recovery options for end-of-life tires (ELTs). One of the most proper recovery options for ELTs is incineration of them in cement plants. There are 49 integrated cement factories which have Environmental Permit and License Certificate in Turkey as the final processing plant. Besides benefits of recovering ELTs to environment, cost aspect of process is crucial. In this study, logistic network design of waste tires sent from collection points to these factories to minimize the costs involved is planned. There are three echelons of supply chain as waste tires collection point, contractor firms and cement factories. Model for this network considers transshipment plan of waste tires between the echelons of supply chain and routes used to gather them. Model that deal with this system are expressed as mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problem. As a case study, model verified with data’s for Ankara

Keywords

Reverse logistics, Waste tire incineration, Cement factories, MILP

References

• [1] Rahman F. A., ‘’Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Alternatives for Waste Management’’ New Mexico State University, (2014).
• [2] Ostojic S. D., Simic V. and Miljus M., ‘‘Used Tire Management: An Overview, Part I’’, In 3rd Logistics International Conference, Belgrade, Serbia, 210-215, (2017).
• [3] Rowhani A. and Rainey T. J., ‘’Scrap Tyre Management Pathways and Their Use as a Fuel—A Review (T. E. Amidon, Ed.)’’, Energies, 2-26, (2016).
• [4] Pipilikaki P., Katsioti M., Papageorgiou D., Fragoulis D. and Chaniotakis E., ‘’Use of tire derived fuel in clinker burning’’ Cement & Concrete Composites, 27: 843-847, (2005).
• [5] Deolalkar S. P., ‘’Designing Green Cement Plants’’, (2016).
• [6] Urubru A., Ponce-Cueto E., Cobo-Benita J. R. and Ordieres-Mere J., ‘’The new challenges of end-of-life tyres management systems’’ A Spanish case study. Waste Management, 33(3): 679-688, (2013).
• [7] ‘’Turkish Cement Manufacturers Association’’, (2018).
• [8] Williams H. P., ‘’Integer Programming’’, In Model Building in Mathematical Programming , 5: 155-164, (2013).
• [9] Goetschalckx M., ‘’ Supply Chain Engineering’’, 161, Springer, (2011).
• [10] Clarke G. and Wright J. W., ‘’Scheduling of Vehicles from a Central Depot to a Number of Delivery Points’’, Operations Research, 12(4): 568-581, (1964).
• [11] Eiselt H.A. and Laporte G., ‘’Objectives in Locatio Problems’’, 10.1007/978-1-4612-5355-6. Environmental Protection Agency. (2000). Landfill Manuals Landfill Site Design, 1-3, (1995).
• [12] Liu K.., Zhou Y. and Zhang Z., ‘’Capacitated location model with online demand pooling in a multi-channel supply chain’’, European Journal of Operational Research,207(1): (2010).
• [13] Nallusamy R., Duraiswamy K., Dhanalaksmi R. And Parthiban P., ‘’Optimization of Non-Linear Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem Using K-Means Clustering, Shrink Wrap’’, (2010).
• [14] ‘’Algorithm and Meta-Heuristics’’, International Journal of Nonlinear Science, 9, 171-177.
• [15] Jain A. K., ‘’Data clustering: 50 years beyond K-means’’, Pattern Recognition Letters ,31, 651-666, (2010).
• [16] Kop Y., Genevois M. E. and Ulukan H. Z., ‘’End-of-Life Tyres Recovery Method Selection by Using a Two Step Methodology’’, J. of Mult.-Valued Logic & Soft Computing, 22, 481-500, (2012).
• [17] Han X., Ji S., Wang C. and Song Q., ‘’A study on used tire reverse logistics flow distribution based on minimum recycling cost’’ 5th International Conference on Natural Computation, 303 – 307. Tianjin, China, (2009).
• [18] Sasikumar P., Kannan G. and Haq A. N., ‘’A multi – echelon reverse logistics network design for product recovery – a case of truck tire remanufacturing’’, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 49, 1223 – 1234, (2010).
• [19] Laporte G., ‘’The Traveling Salesman Problem: An overview of exact and approximate algorithms’’ European Journal of Operational Research 59: 231-247, (1991).