Environmental advantages of superconducting devices in distributed electricity-generation

Applied Energy

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-38

  Hartikainen, Teemu ^a   Mikkonen, Risto ^a   Lehtonen, Jorma ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b Applied Energy Research Inc   (Finland)

Author keywords

Distributed generation; Environment; Life cycle assessment; Superconductivity

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLYWHEELS; OPTIMIZATION; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

DISTRIBUTED GENERATION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA);

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLYWHEELS; OPTIMIZATION; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY USE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 33749368634     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2006.04.011     Document Type: Article

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