Frigero - Towards energy autonomous temperature-controlled supply chains
Description
In our vision, all Swiss supply chains of temperature-controlled products are energy autonomous. To achieve energy autonomy, transparency is needed as to where energy is used in the supply chain. Additionally, knowledge is needed of which energy efficiency measures, energy recuperation and production measures, and alternative technologies are available to save or even recuperate energy in the supply chain, before developing a simulation model to make informed decisions about possible redesigns of the supply chain or technological setup. The innovation content lies in the combination of simulation tool and network design.
As novelty, the simulation model integrates all internal and external supply chain partners. The application aims at demonstrating that decentralised supply chains integrating several partners can go beyond the energy savings and lead to energy autonomy, which is discussed as impossible until now.
Key data
Projectlead
Deputy Projectlead
Project team
Pascal Kienast, Pascal Vögeli, Prof. Markus Hubbuch, Prof. Dr. Matthias Haase, Fabio Thon, Dr. Sadik Yigit, Prof. Dr. Luca Baldini, Prof. Dr. Luca Canetta (Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana SUPSI), Andrea Barni (Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana SUPSI), Alessandro Fontana (Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana SUPSI)
Project partners
Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana SUPSI
Project status
ongoing, started 10/2021
Institute/Centre
Institute of Sustainable Development (INE); Institute for Building Technologies and Process (IBP); Institute of Facility Management (IFM)
Funding partner
Bundesamt für Energie BFE
Project budget
278'254 CHF
Publications
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Marginal abatement cost curves for cold food supply chains : a hybrid adoption of the practice-based and supply-chain practice view
2025 Rühlin, Viola; Scherrer, Maike; Crijns-Graus, Wina; Worrell, Ernst
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Identifying configuration dimensions for temperature-controlled supply chains under the contingencies of climate change
2024 Rühlin, Viola; Scherrer, Maike
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Sourcing decisions for plant-based food alternatives in the context of the triple bottom line
2023 Rühlin, Viola; Weingart, Joel Niklas; Scherrer, Maike
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Distribution of power as moderator between supply chain integration and environmental performance
2023 Rühlin, Viola; Scherrer, Maike
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Towards net zero-emission logistics cold chains
2022 Rühlin, Viola; Scherrer, Maike
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