Environmental analysis of the Product Life Cycle by using an aggregated metric based on exergy

International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 337-355

  Coatanéa, Eric ^a   Kuuva, Markku ^a   Makkonen, Petri E ^a   Saarelainen, Tanja ^a   Nordlund, Harri ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dimensional analysis theory; Environmental metrics; Exergy; Topology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953200347     PISSN: 17435110     EISSN: 17435129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPLM.2007.018297     Document Type: Article

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