A hybrid life-cycle assessment of nonrenewable energy and greenhouse-gas emissions of a village-level biomass gasification project in China

Energies

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2708-2723

  Wang, Changbo ^a   Zhang, Lixiao ^a   Yang, Shuying ^b   Pang, Mingyue ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Center of Solid Waste Management   (China)

Author keywords

Biomass gasification; Fossil energy cost; Greenhouse gas emission; Hybrid LCA; Rural china

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CALORIFIC VALUE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COSTS; FOSSIL FUELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GASES; GASIFICATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; RURAL AREAS;

BIOMASS GASIFICATION; COMBUSTION EFFICIENCIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION; FOSSIL ENERGY COSTS; HYBRID LCA; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT; RURAL CHINAS;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84865768701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en5082708     Document Type: Article

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