A new method to determine the ratio of electricity production from fossil and biogenic sources in waste-to-energy plants

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2579-2586

  Fellner, Johann ^a   Cencic, Oliver ^a   Rechberger, Helmut ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY; RENEWABLE SOURCES; SNAPSHOT ANALYSIS; WASTE-TO-ENERGY (WTE);

WASTE UTILIZATION;

FOSSIL FUEL;

COMPUTATION THEORY; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS; WASTE UTILIZATION;

ELECTRICITY; ENERGY; FOSSIL; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WASTE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CALCULATION; COMBUSTION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; EUROPEAN UNION; ORGANIC WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BIOMASS; CARBON; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; ELECTRICITY; FOSSIL FUELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXYGEN; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

EID: 34247169643     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0617587     Document Type: Article

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