Modelling, simulation and economical evaluation of dry food manufacture at different production scales
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Authors
Colleges, School and Institutes
External organisations
- University of Birmingham
- University of Manchester
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.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 27th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering |
| Editors | Antonio Espuña, Moisès Graells, Luis Puigjaner |
| Publication status | Published - 22 Sep 2017 |
| Event | 27th European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 1 Oct 2017 → 5 Oct 2017 |
Publication series
| Name | Computer Aided Chemical Engineering |
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| Volume | 40 |
| ISSN (Print) | 1570-7946 |
Conference
| Conference | 27th European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering |
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| Abbreviated title | ESCAPE-27 |
| Country | Spain |
| City | Barcelona |
| Period | 1/10/17 → 5/10/17 |
Keywords
- Decentralised manufacturing, Dry food, Food processing, Simulation