Benchmarking cleaner production performance of coal-fired power plants using two-stage super-efficiency data envelopment analysis

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2010, Pages 1387-1393

  Zeng, Shao Lun ^a,b   Ren, Yu Long ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Cleaner production performance; Coal fired power plant; Super efficiency data envelopment analysis

Indexed keywords

CLEANER PRODUCTION; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; EFFICIENT PLANTS; EMISSION REDUCTION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; POWER INDUSTRY; PROJECTION ANALYSIS; SUPER-EFFICIENCY; SURVEY DATA; TARGET VALUES; TWO STAGE;

BENCHMARKING; COAL; COAL FUELED FURNACES; COAL INDUSTRY; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DATA HANDLING; FIRE TUBE BOILERS; MINING; POLLUTION CONTROL; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS;

EID: 79951490660     PISSN: 2010376X     EISSN: 20103778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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