Development of discrete event simulation model for estimation in energy consumption and environmental impacts of manufacturing systems

Increasing population stimulates an economical growth which results with higher production demands. The studies show that, in following years, the most of the production demand will be observed in developing and undeveloped countries where the production and energy generation industries consists of processes with lower levels of efficiencies and less environmental awareness. This situation increases concerns regarding environment; as it also increases the importance of environmental outputs due to industrial activities. In order to control and optimize the environmental impacts, resource consumptions of the industries, measurements and prediction of these concepts holds a key role. Discrete Event Simulation is a promising approach for prediction of energy consumption and environmental impacts of production systems and decision support tool for possible strategies. When Discrete Event Simulation software packages are considered, it is observed that they do not contain a built in structure for environmental calculations. This thesis represents an approach to calculate environmental impacts and resource consumption of production systems by creating discrete event model of the elements of an industrial system.