Hybrid life-cycle assessment of natural gas based fuel chains for transportation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2797-2804

  Strømman, Anders Hammer ^a   Solli, Christian ^a   Hertwich, Edgar G ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; HYDROGEN; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; LIFE CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHANOL; NATURAL GAS;

FUEL CHAINS; HYBRID INVENTORY MODEL; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION;

NATURAL GAS TRANSPORTATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FUEL; HYDROGEN; METHANOL; NATURAL GAS;

EXTRACTION; HYDROGEN; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; LIFE CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHANOL; NATURAL GAS; NATURAL GAS TRANSPORTATION;

EXTRACTION; FUEL; HYDROGEN; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; METHANOL; NATURAL GAS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CLIMATE; COMBUSTION; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUROPE; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; REACTION ANALYSIS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

AUTOMOBILES; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; FOSSIL FUELS; HYDROGEN; METHANOL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TRANSPORTATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH SEA; NORWEGIAN SHELF [NORTH SEA];

EID: 33646036742     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0511523     Document Type: Article

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