Deployment · Definition

Facility siting

Selection of facility locations under supply, demand, network, environmental and social constraints.

Definition

Selection of facility locations under supply, demand, network, environmental and social constraints. Follow the related lesson to see how this term changes a system boundary or decision.

Learn this term in context

Facility siting and infrastructure

A good site aligns feedstocks, utilities, networks, markets, permits, communities and environmental constraints at the required scale.

→

REFERENCES

References & further reading

Hamid Ghaderi, Mir Saman Pishvaee and Alireza Moini (2017). Biomass supply chain network design: An optimization-oriented review and analysis.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2016.09.027 ↗