@inproceedings{7c42e8b67b3144b3a959e020381f9b5d,
title = "Modelling, simulation and economical evaluation of dry food manufacture at different production scales",
abstract = "In this work, a modelling platform by which different manufacturing scenarios can be assessed both in terms of their financial performance and energy demand is presented. The production of a dried food product (cereal baby porridge) has been chosen as case study and four production scales were assessed: (i) Homemade, (ii) Food Incubator (FI), (iii) Distributed Net (DN) and (iv) Plant & Multi-plant Production, with throughput values ranging from 0.5 kg/h to 6500 kg/h. The proposed tool has been also applied to the UK dry baby food demand scale. Results show that DN represents the most convenient scale up to 275 kg/h of production rate, achieving similar profitability than centralised scenarios but providing more flexibility to product demand shifts.",
keywords = "Decentralised manufacturing, Dry food, Food processing, Simulation",
author = "A. Almena and E. Lopez-Quiroga and C. Theodoropoulos and Fryer, {P. J.} and S. Bakalis",
year = "2017",
month = sep,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1016/B978-0-444-63965-3.50133-1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780444639653",
series = "Computer Aided Chemical Engineering",
publisher = "Elsevier",
pages = "787--792",
editor = "Espu{\~n}a, {Antonio } and Graells, {Mois{\`e}s } and Puigjaner, {Luis }",
booktitle = "27th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering",
note = "27th European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering, ESCAPE-27 ; Conference date: 01-10-2017 Through 05-10-2017",
}