A cradle to grave framework for environmental assessment of photovoltaic systems

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Teresa W ^a,b   Dornfeld, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b APPLIED MATERIALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cradle to grave; Life cycle assessment; Photovoltaic; Scope

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 77955098449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSST.2010.5507681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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