Research on the Power Plant Coal-Fired Supply Chain Based on Witness Software

Author

Li, Yabin ; Ci, Tiejun

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech. Eng., North China Electr. Power Univ., Baoding

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Based on analyzing characteristics and relations of thermal power plant coal-fired supply chain, including the choice of coal suppliers, railroad transport systems, power plants, by Witness software the thesis sets up a simulation and optimization model of the coal-fired supply chain and detailedly analyzes one example. The model results not only macroscopically image bottleneck points and resources availability, but define optima separate stage ordering goods batches and stockpile quantities. The thesis is powerful and significant for thermal power plant to establish scientific reasonable supply chain strategies, reduce the cost and increase competition ability.

Keywords

cost reduction; power engineering computing; steam plants; supply chain management; coal suppliers; cost reduction; power plants; railroad transport systems; supply chain strategies; thermal power plant coal-fired supply chain; witness software; Cost function; Fuel economy; Humans; Machinery; Power generation; Power generation economics; Power system economics; Power system modeling; Rail transportation; Supply chains;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.1560

Filename

4679468