@inbook{8d9a8291fbe24be38ff6d6c7650ca1d1,
title = "Optimizing the Biofuels Infrastructure: Transportation Networks and Biorefinery Locations in Illinois",
abstract = "Growing biofuel mandates pose considerable challenges to the infrastructure needed across all stages of the supply chain − from crop production, feedstock harvesting, storage, transportation, and processing to biofuel distribution and use. This chapter focuses on the biofuel transportation and distribution network infrastructure, using Illinois as a case study. Building on an optimal land use allocation model for feedstock production, a mathematical programming model is used to determine optimal locations and capacities of biorefineries, delivery of bioenergy crops to biorefineries, and processing and distribution of ethanol and co-products (DDGS). The model aims to minimize total system costs in a multiyear planning horizon for the period of 2007--2022. Certain locations may be more suitable for corn and corn stover-based ethanol plants, others more for producing ethanol using perennial grasses (miscanthus)",
author = "Seungmo Kang and Hayri {\"O}nal and Yanfeng Ouyang and J{\"u}rgen Scheffran and Tursun, {{\"U} Deniz}",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1007/978-1-4419-0369-3_10",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781441903686",
series = "Natural Resource Management and Policy",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "151--173",
editor = "Madhu Khanna and J{\"u}rgen Scheffran and David Zilberman",
booktitle = "Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy",
address = "Germany",
}