Matrix-based model of the carbon footprint analysis for thermal power generation in China

Materials Science Forum

Volumn 685, Issue , 2011, Pages 230-238

  Sun, Boxue ^a   Gong, Xianzheng ^a   Liu, Yu ^a   Chen, Wenjuan ^a   Wang, Zhihong ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon footprint; Matrix; Thermal power generation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; EMISSION CONTROL; LIFE CYCLE; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

CALCULATION MODELS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS; INTERACTION EFFECT; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); THEORETICAL ESTIMATION; THERMAL ELECTRICITY; THERMAL POWER GENERATION;

CARBON FOOTPRINT;

EID: 79959853262     PISSN: 02555476     EISSN: 16629752     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.685.230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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