Name : [in Japanese]
Location : [in Japanese]
Date : January 18, 2017 - January 19, 2017
Pages 65-66
In this study, we design a sustainable logistics system of forest biomass considering forest biomass supply chain linking from forests to power plants. The system consists of four depots, forests, natural drying sites, pellet plant and power plants, linked by truck transport. We calculate transportation amounts and storage on a day-to-day basis for a year with the linear programming using spatial information of amounts of available forest biomass, demands of power plants, and locations of depots. From this analysis, we reveal robust transportation network, supply cost, inventory turnover rate, lead time, energy consumption and CO<sub>2</sub> emission of the system. Using five indexes, energy consumption, CO<sub>2</sub> emission, cost, inventory turnover rate, and transport efficiency, we evaluate the performance of the system.
