Waste-to-energy based greenhouse heating: Exploring viability conditions through optimisation models

Renewable Energy

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1573-1586

  Chinese, Damiana ^a   Meneghetti, Antonella ^a   Nardin, Gioacchino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Economic optimisation; Floor heating; Greenhouse heating; Technical optimisation; Waste to energy

Indexed keywords

CONDENSERS (LIQUEFIERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOSSIL FUELS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEATING; INVESTMENTS; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; WASTES;

ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY; FLOOR HEATING SYSTEMS; GREENHOUSE HEATING;

GREENHOUSE EFFECT;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WASTE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 15744386955     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2004.11.008     Document Type: Article

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