Consideration of Competing Utilization Pathways

The planning of renewable raw material logistic chains demands for a consideration of competing utilization pathways for the renewable raw materials. This competition is manifold, as competition concerning resources, technologies, and products has to be accounted for. 

Still opportunities for the investigated new processes for a material or energetic use of renewable resources exist. Nevertheless, there is and in future will be an enforced competition of these investigated utilization chains concerning resources. Utilization chains based on agricultural (main) products are in a competition with 

4) We assume a maximum transport load of 22 tons per truck (see Secdon 4.3.2). 

5) We assume a transportation load of a train of 1224 tons, and of an inland waterway transport ship with 974 tons (see Section 4.3.2 and [57 ). 

Many of the utilization chains which are currently developed compete between them as well as with aheady established or enforced usages of the same resource. 

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