Life-cycle inventory of waste solvent distillation: Statistical analysis of empirical data

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5885-5892

  Capello, Christian ^a   Hellweg, Stefanie ^a   Badertscher, Beat ^b   Hungerbühler, Konrad ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Valorec Services AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; LIFE CYCLE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STEAM; WASTE TREATMENT;

LIFE-CYCLE INVENTORY (LCI); QUANTITATIVE UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WASTE SOLVENT DISTILLATION;

DISTILLATION;

NITROGEN; SOLVENT;

DISTILLATION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION; SOLVENT;

AIR ANALYSIS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COOLING; DISTILLATION; ELECTRICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARAMETER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; SOLVENTS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 23244444121     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048114o     Document Type: Article

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