Power-law relationships for estimating mass, fuel consumption and costs of energy conversion equipments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 751-754

  Caduff, Marloes ^a,b   Huijbregts, Mark A J ^c   Althaus, Hans Joerg ^a   Hendriks, A Jan ^c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMONLY USED; CONVERSION EQUIPMENT; ESTIMATION OF PROPERTIES; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; NON-LINEAR SCALING; POWER LAW; POWER-LAW RELATIONSHIP; PRODUCT ASSESSMENT; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SIZE EFFECTS; SIZE SCALING; STEAM BOILER;

BOILERS; COSTS; ENERGY CONVERSION; ESTIMATION; FUELS; LIFE CYCLE; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; STEEL METALLURGY;

EQUIPMENT;

FUEL;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FUEL CONSUMPTION; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; POWER LAW; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; BOILER; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; DIESEL ENGINE; ENERGY CONVERSION; FUEL CONSUMPTION; GENERATOR; POWER LAW RELATIONSHIP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; FOSSIL FUELS; MOTOR VEHICLES; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 78651386552     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103095k     Document Type: Article

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