Prediction for energy content of taiwan municipal solid waste using multilayer perceptron neural networks

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 852-858

  Shu, Hung Yee ^a   Lu, Hsin Chung ^a   Fan, Huan Jung ^a   Chang, Ming Chin ^a   Chen, Jyh Cherng ^a  

^a HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCINERATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING; WASTE TREATMENT;

INCINERATOR CAPACITY; NEURAL NETWORKS MODEL; TAIWAN MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

SOLID WASTES;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ENERGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; TAIWAN; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33745437985     PISSN: 10962247     EISSN: 21622906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10473289.2006.10464497     Document Type: Article

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