Increasing secondary and renewable material use: A chance constrained modeling approach to manage feedstock quality variation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4118-4126

  Olivetti, Elsa A ^a   Gaustad, Gabrielle G ^b   Field, Frank R ^a   Kirchain, Randolph E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM RECYCLING; ANALYTICAL MODEL; CHANCE-CONSTRAINED; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; DETERMINISTIC PROCESS; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; INORGANICS; MODELING APPROACH; PRODUCTION CONDITION; QUALITY PERFORMANCE; QUALITY VARIABILITY; QUALITY VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; RENEWABLE MATERIALS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS; SYNTHETIC MATERIALS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RECYCLING;

FEEDSTOCKS;

ALUMINUM; BIOMATERIAL; INORGANIC COMPOUND;

ALUMINUM; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RECYCLING; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; HETEROGENEOUS FEEDSTOCK; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECYCLING; RENEWABLE ENERGY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SYNTHESIS;

ALUMINUM; ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; GELATIN; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PAPER; RECYCLING; RUBBER;

EID: 79955529121     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103486s     Document Type: Article

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