A container terminal is devoted to transfer containers from sea to land and vice versa in the most efficient way. The main objective of a container terminal is to optimize, in terms of times and costs, the activities related to container handling and forwarding. As regards the hinterland side, a...

Combined cycle power plants have been studied in this paper with the aim of optimizing the heat recovery steam generator using a first and second law approach. To this end, a mathematical model has been developed for determining the optimal steam pressure in a one pressure level heat recovery...

The present paper is focused on the optimization of combined heat and power distributed generation systems. In particular, the authors describe a mixed-integer linear programming model that has been developed in order to optimally design and operate an energy system in a limited urban area where...