Contribution of lignite in the Greek electricity generation: Review and future prospects

Fuel

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 475-489

  Kaldellis, J K ^a   Zafirakis, D ^a   Kondili, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^b Optimisation of Production Systems Lab   (Greece)

Author keywords

Depletion time; Electricity generation; Lignite; Mathematical model; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY; LIGNITE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DEPLETION TIME; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FIRST PRINCIPLES; FUTURE PROSPECTS; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NATIONAL ECONOMIES;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 59549091317     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2008.09.021     Document Type: Article

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