Ranking of biomass pellets by integration of economic, environmental and technical factors

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 39, Issue , 2012, Pages 344-355

  Sultana, Arifa ^a   Kumar, Amit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioeconomy; Biomass pellet; Multi criteria ranking; PROMETHEE; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOECONOMY; BIOMASS FEEDSTOCK; BIOMASS PELLET; BIOMASS PELLETS; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; HEAT AND POWER; MAKING DECISION; MULTI-CRITERIA ASSESSMENT; MULTI-CRITERIA RANKING; POULTRY LITTER; PREFERENCE FUNCTIONS; PREFERENCE RANKING; PRODUCTION COST; PROMETHEE; QUALITATIVE CRITERIA; QUANTITATIVE CRITERIA; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SOURCE OF ENERGY; SWITCHGRASS; TECHNICAL FACTORS; WOOD PELLET;

BIOMASS; FEEDSTOCKS; GREENHOUSE GASES; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

PELLETIZING;

ALFALFA; BIOMASS; DECISION MAKING; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRASS; GREENHOUSE GAS; LITTER; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; POULTRY; POWER GENERATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

MEDICAGO SATIVA; PANICUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 84857784667     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2012.01.027     Document Type: Article

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