Assumptions of the decision support system for the transport of biogas plant substrates

The study presents research aimed at developing a decision model allowing to reduce Carbon dioxide emission to the atmosphere during corn harvesting for the needs of agricultural biogas plants. In order to develop this model, it is important to determine the optimal number of transport sets used during the transport process. It has been proved that it is possible to build a criterion function based on the time of transport (transfer to the place of loading, loading itself, transit to the place of storage, unloading), which results in the minimum number of transport sets used in this process. Presenting the possibilities of determining the optimum number of sets minimizing the set criterion function is the purpose of the study. The analysed criterion function represents the average cost (Carbon dioxide emission) per the time unit of the subject system composed of a forage harvester and transport assemblies.