Environmental performance of the milling process of Malaysian palm oil using the life cycle assessment approach

American Journal of Environmental Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 310-315

  Subramaniam, Vijaya ^a   Ma, An Ngan ^a   Choo, Yuen May ^a   Sulaiman, Nik Meriam Nik ^b  

^a MALAYSIAN PALM OIL BOARD   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Biomass; Life cycle assessment; Life cycle impact assessment; Palm oil; Palm oil mill

Indexed keywords

BIOGAS; BIOMASS; INVENTORY; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MILLING; OIL INDUSTRY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLANTATION; VEGETABLE OIL;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

AUCHENORRHYNCHA; ELAEIS;

EID: 45249095611     PISSN: 1553345X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3844/ajessp.2008.310.315     Document Type: Article

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