Quantifying energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of the primary aluminum industry in China

Qinghua Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Tsinghua University

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 407-410

  Wu, Juanni ^a   Wan, Hongyan ^b   Chen, Weiqiang ^a   Shi, Lei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ALUMINUM CORPORATION OF CHINA LIMITED   (China)

Author keywords

Energy consumption; Energy saving and discharge reduction; Greenhouse gas emissions; Primary aluminum industry

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SMELTING; ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY SAVING; PRIMARY ALUMINUM; TOTAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM PLANTS; COAL INDUSTRY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; INDUSTRY;

GAS EMISSIONS;

EID: 77955832002     PISSN: 10000054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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