Life cycle sustainability assessment of fuels

Fuel

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 256-263

  Zhou, Zupeng ^a   Jiang, Hua ^a   Qin, Liancheng ^a  

^a GUILIN UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fuels; Multi criteria assessment; Sustainability index

Indexed keywords

DIESEL FUELS; GASOLINE; GLOBAL WARMING; METHANOL; NATURAL GAS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL (GWP); MULTI-CRITERIA ASSESSMENT; NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCE DEPLETION POTENTIAL (NRDP); SUSTAINABILITY INDEX;

FUELS;

EID: 33750204191     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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