An algorithm for a fuzzy transportation problem to select a new type of coal for a steel manufacturing unit |
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Authors: | Pankaj Gupta Mukesh Kumar Mehlawat |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Operational Research, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110007, India |
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Abstract: | Manufacturing of steel involves thermal energy intensive processes with coal as the major input. Energy generated is a direct
function of ash content of coal and as such it weighs very high as regards the choice of coal. In this paper, we study a multiobjective
transportation problem to introduce a new type of coal in a steel manufacturing unit in India. The use of new type of coal
serves three non-prioritized objectives, viz. minimization of the total freight cost, the transportation time and the ratio
of ash content to the production of hot metal. It has been observed from the past data that the supply and demand points have
shown fluctuations around their estimated values because of changing economic conditions. To deal with uncertainties of supply
and demand parameters, we transform the past data pertaining to the amount of supply of the ith supply point and the amount of demand of the jth demand point using level (λ,ρ) interval-valued fuzzy numbers. We use a linear ranking function to defuzzify the fuzzy transportation problem. A transportation
algorithm is developed to find the non-dominated solutions for the defuzzified problem. The application of the algorithm is
illustrated by numerical examples constructed from the data provided by the manufacturing unit.
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Keywords: | Fuzzy transportation problem Fuzzy numbers Interval-valued fuzzy numbers Non-dominated solutions |
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