Economic analysis of biogas and compost projects in a palm oil mill with clean development mechanism in Malaysia

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1065-1079

  Yoshizaki, Tatsuya ^a   Shirai, Yoshihito ^a   Hassan, Mohd Ali ^b   Baharuddin, Azhari Samsu ^b   Abdullah, Nik Mustapha Raja ^b   Sulaiman, Alawi ^c   Busu, Zainuri ^d  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^d FELDA Palm Industries Sdn Bhd   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Biogas; CDM; Compost; Empty fruit bunch; Oil palm biomass; Palm oil mill effluent

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; BIOGAS; BIOMASS POWER; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; COMPOST; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EFFLUENT; ENERGY BALANCE; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; MILL; PHOSPHORUS; PRICE DETERMINATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEGETABLE OIL;

MALAYSIA;

ELAEIS; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS;

EID: 84867857198     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-012-9371-7     Document Type: Article

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