Optimization of energy consumption for soybean production using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach

Applied Energy

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3765-3772

  Mousavi Avval, Seyed Hashem ^a   Rafiee, Shahin ^a   Jafari, Ali ^a   Mohammadi, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Electrical energy; Energy use efficiency; Soybean production

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DIESEL FUELS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FERTILIZERS; MACHINERY; OPTIMIZATION;

AVERAGE YIELD; CONSTANT LEVEL; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; ENERGY INPUTS; ENERGY SAVING TARGETS; ENERGY-USE EFFICIENCY; GRAIN YIELD; HUMAN LABOR; INPUT ENERGY; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS; OPTIMAL ENERGY; SAVING ENERGY; SEED ENERGY; SINGLE OUTPUT; SOYBEAN PRODUCTION;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DIESEL; ELECTRICAL POWER; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FERTILIZER; FIELD SURVEY; OPTIMIZATION; SOYBEAN;

GOLESTAN; IRAN;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 79959827788     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.04.021     Document Type: Article

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