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Avraamidou S, Beykal B, Pistikopoulos IPE, Pistikopoulos EN. A hierarchical Food-Energy-Water Nexus (FEW-N) decision-making approach for Land Use Optimization. INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PROCESS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 2018; 44:1885-1890. [PMID: 30397687 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-64241-7.50309-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The land use allocation problem is an important issue for a sustainable development. Land use optimization can have a profound influence on the provisions of interconnected elements that strongly rely on the same land resources, such as food, energy, and water. However, a major challenge in land use optimization arises from the multiple stakeholders and their differing, and often conflicting, objectives. Industries, agricultural producers and developers are mainly concerned with profits and costs, while government agents are concerned with a host of economic, environmental and sustainability factors. In this work, we developed a hierarchical FEW-N approach to tackle the problem of land use optimization and facilitate decision making to decrease the competition for resources and significantly contribute to the sustainable development of the land. We formulate the problem as a Stackelberg duopoly game, a sequential game with two players - a leader and a follower (Stackelberg, 2011). The government agents are treated as the leader (with the objective to minimize the competition between the FEW-N), and the agricultural producers and land developers as the followers (with the objective to maximize their profit). This formulation results into a bi-level mixed-integer programming problem that is solved using a novel bi-level optimization algorithm through ARGONAUT. ARGONAUT is a hybrid optimization framework which is tailored to solve high- dimensional constrained grey-box optimization problems via connecting surrogate model identification and deterministic global optimization. Results show that our data-driven approach allows us to provide feasible solutions to complex bi-level problems, which are essentially very difficult to solve deterministically.
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- Styliani Avraamidou
- Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843, USA.,Texas A&M Energy Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843, USA.,Department of Chemical Engineering, Centre of Process Systems Engineering (CPSE), Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843, USA.,Texas A&M Energy Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843, USA
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- Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843, USA.,Texas A&M Energy Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843, USA
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- Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843, USA.,Texas A&M Energy Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843, USA
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Perception and Representation of the Resource Nexus at the Interface between Society and the Natural Environment. SUSTAINABILITY 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/su10072545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the resource nexus. This has created the co-existence of different understandings and uses of the concept. In this regard, experiences in the EU H2020 project ‘Moving towards adaptive governance in complexity: Informing nexus security’ are consistent with findings reported in the literature: (i) The inconvenient message of the nexus is difficult to get across, it being incompatible with the currently dominant rosy narratives about sustainability. Indeed, from a historic perspective, the nexus can be seen as a revival of the ideological fight between cornucopians and neo-Malthusians; (ii) Silo structures in existing institutions are a problem for the governance of the nexus, and so is the resulting reductionist strategy of addressing and fixing one issue at the time; (iii) Scientific inquiry is currently not providing the quality inputs needed for a meaningful discussion of the resource nexus. Entanglement of resource flows is rooted in the complex metabolic pattern of social-ecological systems, the analysis of which requires a complex systems approach and relational analysis. Contemporary reductionist models simply make the nexus invisible to the analyst.
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Avraamidou S, Milhorn A, Sarwar O, Pistikopoulos EN. Towards a Quantitative Food-Energy-Water Nexus Metric to Facilitate Decision Making in Process Systems: A Case Study on a Dairy Production Plant. ESCAPE. EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER AIDED PROCESS ENGINEERING 2018; 43:391-396. [PMID: 30320306 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-64235-6.50071-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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While the importance of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus (FEW-N) has been widely accepted, a holistic approach to facilitate decision making in FEW-N systems, along with a quantitative index assessing the integrated FEW-N performance is rather lacking. In this work, we propose a FEW-N metric along with a framework to facilitate decision making for FEW-N process systems through a FEW-N integrated approach. The framework and metric are illustrated through a case study on a dairy production and processing plant. The dairy industry is a significant user of water and energy, with water being a top issue for most dairy industries and organizations worldwide. Following the framework, we develop a mixed-integer scheduling model, with alternative pathways, that faithfully replicated the major food, energy, and water aspects of a real cottage-cheese production plant. Using the developed FEW-N metric we were able to optimize the cottage-cheese plant process and observe different trade-offs between the FEW-N elements.
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- Styliani Avraamidou
- Texas A&M Energy Institute, Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station TX, 77843, U.S.A.,Centre of Process Systems Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, U.K
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- Texas A&M Energy Institute, Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station TX, 77843, U.S.A.,Department of Systems Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, U.S.A
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- Texas A&M Energy Institute, Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station TX, 77843, U.S.A.,Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 U.S.A
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- Texas A&M Energy Institute, Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station TX, 77843, U.S.A
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Assessing the Sustainable Development of Bioenergy from Cassava within “Water-Energy-Food” Nexus Framework in China. SUSTAINABILITY 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/su10072153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Synthesis of Heat-Integrated Water Allocation Networks: A Meta-Analysis of Solution Strategies and Network Features. ENERGIES 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/en11051158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Sustainability in the Minerals Industry: Seeking a Consensus on Its Meaning. SUSTAINABILITY 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/su10051429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Namany S, Al-Ansari T, Govindan R. Integrated techno-economic optimization for the design and operations of energy, water and food nexus systems constrained as non-cooperative games. 13TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PROCESS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (PSE 2018) 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-64241-7.50162-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Liu Y, Wang S, Chen B. Regional water–energy–food nexus in China based on multiregional input–output analysis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Biorefineries and the food, energy, water nexus — towards a whole systems approach to design and planning. Curr Opin Chem Eng 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2017.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Belmonte BA, Benjamin MFD, Tan RR. Biochar systems in the water-energy-food nexus: the emerging role of process systems engineering. Curr Opin Chem Eng 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2017.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Systems engineering opportunities for agricultural and organic waste management in the food–water–energy nexus. Curr Opin Chem Eng 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2017.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Veldhuis AJ, Yang A. Integrated approaches to the optimisation of regional and local food–energy–water systems. Curr Opin Chem Eng 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2017.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Design and optimization of shale gas energy systems: Overview, research challenges, and future directions. Comput Chem Eng 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2017.01.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Sampat AM, Martin E, Martin M, Zavala VM. Optimization formulations for multi-product supply chain networks. Comput Chem Eng 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2017.04.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Leung Pah Hang MY, Martinez-Hernandez E, Leach M, Yang A. Insight-Based Approach for the Design of Integrated Local Food-Energy-Water Systems. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2017; 51:8643-8653. [PMID: 28686428 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b00867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Society currently relies heavily on centralized production and large scale distribution infrastructures to meet growing demands for goods and services, which causes socioeconomic and environmental issues, particularly unsustainable resource supply. Considering local production systems as a more sustainable alternative, this paper presents an insight-based approach to the integrated design of local systems providing food, energy, and water to meet local demands. The approach offers a new hierarchical and iterative decision and analysis procedure incorporating design principles and ability to examine design decisions, in both synthesis of individual yet interconnected subsystems and integrated design of resource reuse across the entire system. The approach was applied to a case study on design of food-energy-water system for a locale in the U.K.; resulting in a design which significantly reduced resource consumption compared to importing goods from centralized production. The design process produced insights into the impact of one decision on other parts of the problem, either within or across different subsystems. The result was also compared to the mathematical programming approach for whole system optimization from previous work. It was demonstrated that the new approach could produce a comparable design while offering more valuable insights for decision makers.
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- Centre for Environment and Sustainability, University of Surrey , Guildford GU2 7XH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford , Oxford OX1 3PJ, United Kingdom
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Ning C, You F. A data‐driven multistage adaptive robust optimization framework for planning and scheduling under uncertainty. AIChE J 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.15792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- Chao Ning
- Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringCornell UniversityIthaca NY14853
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- Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringCornell UniversityIthaca NY14853
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Ning C, You F. Data‐driven adaptive nested robust optimization: General modeling framework and efficient computational algorithm for decision making under uncertainty. AIChE J 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.15717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Chao Ning
- Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringCornell UniversityIthaca New York14853
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- Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringCornell UniversityIthaca New York14853
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Gao J, You F. Game theory approach to optimal design of shale gas supply chains with consideration of economics and life cycle greenhouse gas emissions. AIChE J 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.15605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Jiyao Gao
- Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical Engineering and Biomolecular EngineeringCornell UniversityIthaca NY14853
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- Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical Engineering and Biomolecular EngineeringCornell UniversityIthaca NY14853
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