Improving the Performance of Waste Handling Cranes by Optimisation-based Decision Rules

Waste-to-energy is the process of generating energy from municipal waste. The most conventional energy recovery method is incineration, which takes place at a waste-to-energy plant. The incoming waste is collected in a bunker, where an overhead crane stacks and mixes the material before feeding it to the furnaces. The more homogeneous the waste...

Online lock scheduling and disruption management

The Port of Antwerp is the second-largest container port in Europe. The rising demand for container transport requires significant investments in infrastructure projects. Macomi helps the Port of Antwerp to determine the effect of different projects on the throughput of the port using simulation. In this thesis, the aim is to create algorithms...

Railway - Spare Inventory & Maintenance Scheduling model development

To better govern inventory control of spare parts in tandem with scheduling of maintenance operations in a railway setting, a Railway Spare Inventory & Maintenance Scheduling (R-SIMS) model is developed. To suit the railway industry setting the model includes an inventory control strategy which envokes continuous monitoring and a reorder...