Life cycle environmental impacts of electricity production by solarthermal power plants in Spain

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 0210121-0210127

  Lechón, Yolanda ^a   De La Rúa, Cristina ^a   Sáez, Rosa ^a  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

Author keywords

Energy payback time; Greenhouse gas emissions; Life cycle analysis; Solar energy

Indexed keywords

COBALT COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ECOLOGY; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ENERGY RESOURCES; ESTIMATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LIFE CYCLE; MAGNETISM; MICROFLUIDICS; POWER PLANTS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR HEATING; STANDARDS; TECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; ENERGY PAYBACK TIME (EPT); ENERGY USES; FUNCTIONAL UNIT (FU); IN ORDER; INTERNATIONAL STANDARD (IS); LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA)); LIFE CYCLE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; PARABOLIC TROUGH TECHNOLOGY; SOLAR THERMAL; SOLAR THERMAL POWER; TOWER TECHNOLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 45249096882     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2888754     Document Type: Article

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