Strategic Planning for the Sustainable Production of Biofuels

José María Ponce-Ortega is a Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico. He earned his Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Technology of Celaya, Mexico, in 2009 and 2003, respectively. He completed postdoctoral research at Texas A&M University, USA, and served as a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Dr. Ponce-Ortega is a full professor and a member of the National Research System of Mexico. His research focuses on the optimization of chemical processes, sustainable design, energy, mass, water, and property integration, and supply chain optimization. He has published more than 310 papers, five books, and 60 book chapters. He has supervised 30 Ph.D. students and 50 Master’s students and secured funding for 15 research projects totaling approximately $1,000,000. Dr. Ponce-Ortega serves on the editorial boards of Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy and Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability, and is a subject editor for Sustainable Production and Consumption, as well as associate editor in Frontiers in Chemical Engineering Dr. José Ezequiel Santibañez- Aguilar got his Ph.D. and Master degrees in the Chemical Engineering Department in the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Mexico in 2016 and 2013, respectively. He stayed as scholar researcher at Texas A&M University and Northwestern University. Currently, he is professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico and he is member of the National Research System of Mexico. His research interest is in the area of optimization of supply chains for biorefineries accounting for the involved sustainability. He has published more than 20 papers and 11 book chapters.

• 1. Introduction2. Involving environmental aspect in the strategic planning of a biomass conversion system3. Optimal planning and site selection for distributed multiproduct biorefineries involving economic, environmental and social objectives4. Distributed biorefining networks for the valued-added processing of water hyacinth5. Optimization of the supply chain associated to the production of bioethanol from residues of the agave from the tequila process in Mexico6. Financial risk assessment and optimal planning of biofuels supply chains under uncertainty7. Stochastic design of biorefinery supply chains considering economic and environmental objectives8. Mixed-integer dynamic optimization or planning distributed biorefineriesAppendixA. GAMS code for the model of Chapter 2B. GAMS code for the model of Chapter 3C. GAMS code for the model of Chapter 4D. GAMS code for the model of Chapter 6E. GAMS code for the model of Chapter 7F. GAMS code for the model of Chapter 8