A particle swarm approach for optimizing a multi-stage closed loop supply chain for the solar cell industry |
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| Affiliation: | 1. China Medical University Hospital, 3D Printing Medical Research Center, Taiwan, ROC;2. Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise information, Tunghai University, Taichung 40704, Taiwan, ROC;3. Department of Information Management, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City 24205, Taiwan, ROC;1. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar;2. Department of Engineering Systems & Management, Masdar Institute of Science & Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates;3. Department of Industrial Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan;4. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan;1. Department of Design Manufacture and Engineering Management, University of Strathclyde, 75 Montrose Street, G1 1XJ, Glasgow, United Kingdom;2. UK Biochar Research Centre, School of GeoScience, University of Edinburgh, Crew Building, King''s Buildings, EH9 3FF, Edinburgh, United Kingdom;1. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Mazandaran, Behshahr, Iran;2. Department of Industrial Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran;1. Department of Industrial and System Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, West Bengal, India;2. Nottingham University Business School China, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, 199 Taikang East Road, Ningbo 315 100, Zhejiang, China;3. School of Economics, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, 199 Taikang East Road, Ningbo 315 100, Zhejiang, China |
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| Abstract: | In order to implement sustainable strategies in a supply chain, enterprises should provide highly favorable and effective solutions for reducing carbon dioxide emissions, which brings out the issues of designing and managing a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC). This paper studies an integrated CLSC network design problem with cost and environmental concerns in the solar energy industry from sustainability perspectives. A multi-objective closed-loop supply chain design (MCSCD) model has been proposed, in consideration of many practical characteristics including flow conservation at each production/recycling unit of forward/reverse logistics (FL/RL), capacity expansion, and recycled components. A deterministic multi-objective mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model capturing the tradeoffs between the total cost and total CO2 emissions was developed to address the multistage CSLC design problem. Subsequently, a multi-objective PSO (MOPSO) algorithm with crowding distance-based nondominated sorting approach is developed to search the near-optimal solution of the MCSCD model. The computational study shows that the proposed MOPSO algorithm is suitable and effective for solving large-scale complicated CLSC structure than the conventional branch-and-bound optimization approach. Analysis results show that an enterprise needs to apply an adequate recycling strategy or energy saving technology to achieve a better economic effectiveness if the carbon emission regulation is applied. Consequently, the Pareto optimal solution obtained from MOPSO algorithm may give the superior suggestions of CLSC design, such as factory location options, capacity expansion, technology selection, purchasing, and order fulfillment decisions in practice. |
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| Keywords: | Closed-loop supply chain design Multi-objective searching Particle swarm optimization Solar energy industry |
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