One was chronic shortage, which continued to stimulate hoarding and compelled the continuation of material allocation.
The results from solving the planning model give optimal raw material allocation to different plants.
The overall model exhibits a block angular structure that is decomposed by raw material allocation.
Along with the minimum fresh and waste targets, the material allocation target is another key feature of the PCA.
The Pareto-frontier is elaborated to show how the material allocation, component configuration, and operation parameters are influenced by the objective functions.
A useful method for the generation of a suitable diagram (modified material allocation diagram) is developed by considering the species combination of the subproducts decomposed from the product and the outflowing streams.
Thus, it can provide opportunities for forecasting accidents (e.g., hail, typhoons, lightning), foreseeing changes in primary energy and environmental conditions, and allow more time for response planning, material allocation, and the arranging of repair forces.
The stand-alone originally developed graphical user interface of the AGENT code design environment allows the user to view and verify input data by displaying the geometry and material allocation.
Along with geometric optimization of the heat generating area in each step, the tree network of high conductive links is optimized with respect to high conductive material allocation in the heat generating area as well.
It is found that the configuration constructed by manipulating the modified material allocation diagram is suitable for the initial one, that the ratios can be determined by solving the material balance equations when the degrees are known, and that material balance equations become linear by adopting the relative flow rates allocated from the outflowing streams to the products as the variables.
However, increased redundancy comes with minor costs in terms of increases in material allocation or decreases in conductance.
