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2nd International Conference on Technologies & Business Models for Circular Economy

The 2nd International Conference on Technologies & Business Models for Circular Economy (TBMCE) was devoted to presentations of circular economy concepts, technologies and methodologies that contribute to the shift of business entities and society as a whole to a more responsible, circular management of resources. The conference proceedings contain manuscripts from the following conference topics: Sustainable energy, Biomass and alternative raw materials, Circular business models, Secondary raw materials and functional materials, ICT in Circular Economy, Processes and technologies. TBMCE 2019 was organized by Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Maribor and held in Portorož, Slovenia at the Grand Hotel Bernardin from October 24th to October 25th, 2019. The event was under the patronage of Ministry of Economic Development and Technology.

B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting

COBISS.SI-ID: 15270915

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Sustainable systems synthesis and optimization for efficient utilization of resources and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions

Among the main problems of the modern society are depletion of resources, waste management, linear supply chains and unsustainability of systems in general. One of the ultimate goals from the systems viewpoint would be to develop and implement a holistic approach to sustainable systems synthesis and optimization in order to increase efficiency of resources utilization, while simultaneously mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as significantly lower waste disposal.

B.04 Guest lecture

COBISS.SI-ID: 15654147

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Development of MINLP Synthesizer Mipsyn-Global for Circular Synthesis of Sustainable Production Systems

The development of an advanced computer package called MIPSYN-Global for the circular synthesis and retrofitting of innovative and sustainable process supply networks is under way. It would comprise the main achievements from the previous versions - efficient strategies such as MINLP with mixed-integer translation of variables, strategies for multiple level MINLP, bi- or multiple-level global MINLP, MINLP when applying implicit and explicit model formulation, MILP with 100+ uncertain parameters, multi-objective MINLP, etc. In addition, we highlight the implementation and further development of the most advanced logic-based algorithms and strategies in order to obtain global or near-global solutions.

B.04 Guest lecture

COBISS.SI-ID: 15851267