European Production of Biofuels for the Maritime Industry: A MILP optimization of biofuel supply chains to minimize costs and emissions for the first phase of the Energy Transition

The maritime industry has long relied on oils and heavy fuels as main energy carriers. The shipping sector still accounts for an important 2.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. On top of this, current industry fuels contain high levels of sulfur and release nitrogen oxides upon combustion, which both can be extremely harmful to local...

Airport passenger platform logistics optimisation for remote aircraft stand operations: AirportCreators case study for Rotterdam The Hague Airport

Since the commercialisation of air travel, demand for air transport is increasing. Optimal system capacity utilisation at airports has therefore become crucial. As available resources such as land, buildings and human are scarce and airline tickets need to be financially affordable, airports optimise their system while maximising capacity within...

Enhancing Baggage Handling Operations at Hub Airports through Sequential Forecasting and Resource Allocation: A Gradient Boosting Approach with MILP Optimisation

Baggage handling operations in airports have become substantially more challenging due to the surge in air transportation demand witnessed in the last three decades combined with an even higher pressure on the operations following the COVID-19 pandemic. The intricate nature of checked baggage requirements, impacting resource allocation and...

Tankpark scheduling optimisation

<br/>This thesis is done in cooperation with Sime Darby Oils Zwijndrecht (SDOZ). SDOZ is a refinery of vegetable based oils. The goal of this thesis is to optimize the scheduling of the Refined Oil Storage (ROS) of the refinery. This is done because within the company it is suspected that the current way of assigning the tanks, that is...