Objective and subjective evaluation of power plants and their non-radioactive emissions using the analytic hierarchy process

Energy Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 4027-4038

  Chatzimouratidis, Athanasios I ^a   Pilavachi, Petros A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Analytic Hierarchy Process; Emissions; Power plant evaluation

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

NON-METHANE VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (NMVOC); NON-NUCLEAR POWER PLANT EMISSIONS; NON-RADIOACTIVE EMISSIONS;

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; CARBON DIOXIDE; HEALTH IMPACT; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; NITROGEN COMPOUND; PARTICULATE MATTER; POWER PLANT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EID: 34248591728     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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