Clusters with minimum transportation cost to centers: A case study in corn production management

© 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. In Northern Thailand, the size and topographical structure of farmland makes it necessary for operators of small-scale waste management systems to be able to reach their clients in an effective manner. Over the past decades, corn contract far...

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Main Authors: Sirilak Phonin, Chulin Likasiri, Sittipong Dankrakul
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spelling th-cmuir.6653943832-571772018-09-05T03:44:49Z Clusters with minimum transportation cost to centers: A case study in corn production management Sirilak Phonin Chulin Likasiri Sittipong Dankrakul Decision Sciences Mathematics © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. In Northern Thailand, the size and topographical structure of farmland makes it necessary for operators of small-scale waste management systems to be able to reach their clients in an effective manner. Over the past decades, corn contract farming has increased, and the chief method for eliminating waste from these farms has chiefly been open burning on the fields, which produces enormous amounts of greenhouse gases (GHG) and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs). To find a way to reduce GHG emissions in the corn production system, this work focuses on finding clusters with minimum transportation time from waste disposal centers. To solve the clustering problems, four models are created and solved on AIMMS and MATLAB. Simulation results indicate that the number of clients essentially affects the performance of the procedure. The case studies are on corn production management in Chiang Mai, the region’s economic capital, as well as in 9 provinces in Northern Thailand, including Chiang Mai, whose combined corn production comprises 32.73 percent of the national production. With roughly 15% of the corn cobs and husks involved in the study, we found that by changing the waste elimination process, the total CO2emissions can be reduced by up to 12,008.40 tons per year in Chiang Mai and up to 180,198.14 tons per year in the 9 provinces of Northern Thailand. 2018-09-05T03:35:57Z 2018-09-05T03:35:57Z 2017-06-01 Journal 20734336 2-s2.0-85021981196 10.3390/g8020024 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85021981196&origin=inward http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/57177
institution Chiang Mai University
building Chiang Mai University Library
country Thailand
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topic Decision Sciences
Mathematics
spellingShingle Decision Sciences
Mathematics
Sirilak Phonin
Chulin Likasiri
Sittipong Dankrakul
Clusters with minimum transportation cost to centers: A case study in corn production management
description © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. In Northern Thailand, the size and topographical structure of farmland makes it necessary for operators of small-scale waste management systems to be able to reach their clients in an effective manner. Over the past decades, corn contract farming has increased, and the chief method for eliminating waste from these farms has chiefly been open burning on the fields, which produces enormous amounts of greenhouse gases (GHG) and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs). To find a way to reduce GHG emissions in the corn production system, this work focuses on finding clusters with minimum transportation time from waste disposal centers. To solve the clustering problems, four models are created and solved on AIMMS and MATLAB. Simulation results indicate that the number of clients essentially affects the performance of the procedure. The case studies are on corn production management in Chiang Mai, the region’s economic capital, as well as in 9 provinces in Northern Thailand, including Chiang Mai, whose combined corn production comprises 32.73 percent of the national production. With roughly 15% of the corn cobs and husks involved in the study, we found that by changing the waste elimination process, the total CO2emissions can be reduced by up to 12,008.40 tons per year in Chiang Mai and up to 180,198.14 tons per year in the 9 provinces of Northern Thailand.
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Chulin Likasiri
Sittipong Dankrakul
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Chulin Likasiri
Sittipong Dankrakul
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title Clusters with minimum transportation cost to centers: A case study in corn production management
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