A decision support system for establishing a waste treatment plant for recycling organic waste into bio-energy in Northern Norway

Author

Solvang, Wei Deng ; Roman, Elisabeth ; Hao Yu ; Mustafa, Mohamad Y.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Eng., Narvik Univ. Coll., Narvik, Norway

fYear

2013

fDate

2-5 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

659

Lastpage

664

Abstract

To achieve long-term sustainable development in both social and economic aspects needs significant efforts on dealing with organic waste in an environmentally friendly manner, because the benefits obtained by sacrificing the environment today will be double repaid by our children and grandchildren tomorrow. This paper presents a novel research on decision support system (DSS) for managing the interests of different stakeholders within the value chain of organic waste treatment, and this DSS is applied for performing comprehensive analysis and providing appropriate suggestions in the decisional process of establishing bio-energy plant in Northern Norway.

Keywords

bioenergy conversion; decision support systems; environmental science computing; recycling; sustainable development; waste handling; bio-energy plant; decision support system; environment friendly; northern Norway; organic waste recycling; sustainable development; waste treatment plant; Decision support systems; Educational institutions; Sociology; Supply chains; Transportation; Waste management; Bio-energy; Decision support system (DSS); Organic waste; Supply chain;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2013 IEEE 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1543-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CogInfoCom.2013.6719184

Filename

6719184