Tramp shipping companies are committed to transport a set of contracted cargoes and try to derive additional revenue from carrying optional spot cargoes. Here, we present a real life ship routing and scheduling problem for a shipping company operating in project shipping, a special segment of tramp shipping...
Hydrogen storage and purification processes represent two key steps in hydrogen fuel production and supply chain, and for this reason they have a critical role in the development of the hydrogen economy. On one hand, the use of carbon membranes can help to overcome some disadvantages of the already commercial...
Planning maritime surveillance activities in military operations and long-term defense planning is a huge task that is done manually today. Because maritime surveillance resources are extremely expensive, the potential cost savings of using optimization models to do such planning are large. In this paper...
... including monitoring and verification, has become operational. It may still take years until this happens on a bona-fide basis. The most plausible reasons are high cost, commercial uncertainty, lack of a foreseeable regulatory framework, problems pertaining to bankability, and, last but not least, liability...
...between different standards. By looking at some of the cases, suggestions for revising product standards, power quality regulations and CE-marking process are proposed, and discussed...