Carbon credits required to make manure biogas plants economic

International Journal of Green Energy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 339-349

  Ghafoori, Emad ^a   Flynn, Peter C ^a   Checkel, M David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anaerobic digestion; Biogas; Carbon credit; Gas costs; Power costs

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; CARBON; COST ACCOUNTING; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; GAS EMISSIONS; MANURES;

CARBON CREDIT; CARBON EMISSION;

BIOGAS;

BIOFUEL; BIOGAS; CARBON EMISSION; DIGESTION; MANURE; MIXED FARMING; NATURAL GAS; POWER GENERATION;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; RED DEER VALLEY;

CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 34447535018     PISSN: 15435075     EISSN: 15435083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15435070701332187     Document Type: Article

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