Hazardous waste disposal: A waste-fuel blending approach

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 307-319

  Flowers, A Dale ^a,b,c,d   Linderman, Kevin ^a,e  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental regulation; Fuel blending; Goal programming; Microcomputer applications; Waste management

Indexed keywords

EID: 5644262781     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2003.tb00205.x     Document Type: Review

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