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Title: A FRAMEWORK FOR MODELING ORGANIC WASTE STREAM REPROCESSING

Author
item TANG, YING(GINA) - ROWAN UNIVERSITY
item Rosentrater, Kurt

Submitted to: Symposium Proceedings
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/1/2005
Publication Date: 8/10/2005
Citation: Tang, Y., Rosentrater, K.A. 2005. A framework for modeling organic waste stream reprocessing. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics and Informatics, August 10-12, 2005, Beijing, China.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Alternative disposal methods for food and other organic manufacturing waste streams are increasingly being investigated. Direct shipping, blending, extrusion, pelleting, and drying are commonly used to produce finished human food, animal feed, or industrial products, or components ready for further manufacture. This paper discusses a new computer model based on analytical methods used for disassembly planning and demanufacturing modeling, but applied to organic processing waste streams. The simulation model discussed here can be applied to various liquid, sludge, or solid byproduct streams in order to determine optimal reprocessing avenues for specific manufacturing firms.