Utilising renewable resources economically: new challenges and chances for process development

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 164-170

  Narodoslawsky, Michael ^a   Niederl Schmidinger, Anneliese ^a   Halasz, Laszlo ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Process development; Process synthesis; Regional technologies; Renewable resources; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTION CONTROL; RAW MATERIALS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CHEMICAL AND PROCESS INDUSTRIES.; COMPLEX PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; LOGISTICAL CONSIDERATIONS; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS SYNTHESIS; PRODUCTION SYSTEMS;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 34948880678     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2006.08.023     Document Type: Article

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