Land use changes, greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel substitution of biofuels compared to bioelectricity production for electric cars in Austria

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4060-4074

  Schmidt, Johannes ^a   Gass, Viktoria ^a   Schmid, Erwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

2020 goals; Bioelectric mobility; Biofuels; Spatially explicit optimization

Indexed keywords

2020 GOALS; AUSTRIA; BIO-ENERGY; BIOELECTRIC MOBILITY; BIOMASS UTILIZATION; ELECTRIC CARS; ELECTRIC MOBILITY; ENERGY CROPS; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; ENERGY SYSTEM MODEL; EU DIRECTIVES; FUEL SUBSTITUTION; GHG EMISSION; HEAT AND POWER; HEAT PRODUCTION; LAND-USE CHANGE; LAND-USE OPTIMIZATION; MODEL PARAMETERS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; ROAD TRANSPORTATION; SECOND GENERATION; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; TRANSPORTATION SECTOR;

BIOFUELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; CULTIVATION; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ETHANOL; ETHANOL FUELS; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELING; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; OPTIMIZATION; RATING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL;

BIOENERGY; BIOFUEL; BIOMASS POWER; CARBON EMISSION; CROP PRODUCTION; ELECTRIC VEHICLE; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY CROP; ETHANOL; EUROPEAN UNION; FOSSIL FUEL; GREENHOUSE GAS; HARVESTING; LAND USE CHANGE; MOBILITY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; ROAD TRANSPORT; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 79961126999     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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