Economic aspects of the cotton-stalk biomass logistics and comparison of supply chain methods

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 199-214

  Tatsiopoulos, I P ^a   Tolis, A J ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biomass; Co generation; Cotton stalks; Energy; GIS; Linear programming; Logistics; Recycling; Renewable; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY); RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SEED;

LOGISTIC NETWORKS;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS POWER; COMBINED HEAT AND POWER; COTTON; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY CROP;

GREECE;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 0037208337     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0961-9534(02)00115-0     Document Type: Article

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