Author Description

"This book presents an introduction to the planning and implementation methods for interplant resource integration. The analytic tools provided in the book can be used for the tasks of formulating mathematical programming model(s) to maximize the achievable overall saving and also devising the "fair" distribution scheme(s) to allocate individual financial benefits among the participating plants. The superstructures of various resource-exchange networks, their model formulations, and the corresponding allocation algorithms are given in sufficient detail to facilitate practical applications"