A comment on the optimal sizing of a biomass utilization facility under constant and variable cost scaling

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 13, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 1-9

  Jenkins, B M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass facilities; Constant scaling; Costs; Economics; Optimization; Power plants; Scaling factor; Sensitivity analysis; Variable scaling

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ECONOMICS; ENERGY POLICY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; POWER PLANTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BIOMASS FACILITY; CONSTANT SCALING; OPTIMAL SIZING; SCALING FACTOR; VARIABLE SCALING;

BIOMASS;

EID: 0031447206     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0961-9534(97)00085-8     Document Type: Article

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