The MEFLO method's application for the feasibility assessment of energy recovery from municipal solid waste in a small integrated municipal service system

Progress in Industrial Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 124-148

  Luoranen, Mika ^a   Horttanainen, Mika ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cogeneration; Decision support model; EfW; Energy from waste; Energy supply systems; ESSs; Industrial ecology; Waste management systems; Waste to energy; WMSs

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COGENERATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENERGY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

EID: 44649095147     PISSN: 14768917     EISSN: 14788764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PIE.2008.018548     Document Type: Article

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