Amani Junaidi, Takashi Irohara
Lecture Notes in Production Engineering Part F1164 443-452 2023年2月 査読有り招待有り責任著者
Hazardous Waste Management is defined as the safe and efficient handling of hazardous waste to decrease its toxicity to humans and the environment by means of proper transportation, processing, and disposal. Hazardous waste is generated by different sectors, including the medical sector, industrial sector, domestic sector, among others. Industrial hazardous waste consists of chemicals and compounds of a complex structure, which poses a great risk for public health and the environment alike. This potential risk heavily influences decision-makers when choosing a suitable location for establishing a waste processing facility. Therefore, the process of designing a hazardous waste transportation network comes with many challenges. This paper presents a profit-oriented mixed-integer linear programming model for the hazardous waste location-routing problem, with the main objective of maximizing the overall profit in the network and conditions focusing on minimizing the associated risk in terms of population exposure. The transportation network includes waste generators which are, in this case, factories, along with three different types of hazardous waste processing centers: treatment, recycling, and disposal centers. The formulated problem is coded in Python and optimally solved by Gurobi Optimizer. Furthermore, to deal with the NP-hard nature of the problem for large numerical instances, a metaheuristics algorithm based on non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) is applied, and the model is solved with both NSGA-II and Gurobi to investigate the improvements done by utilizing the genetic algorithm. A case study is conducted for the textile industry in Jordan, as to put the proposed model into practice.