SCALE: Software for CALculating Emergy based on life cycle inventories

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 248, Issue , 2013, Pages 80-91

  Marvuglia, Antonino ^a   Benetto, Enrico ^a   Rios, Gordon ^b   Rugani, Benedetto ^a  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Ecoinvent; Emergy calculator; Graph search; Life cycle assessment; Life cycle inventory; OpenSource

Indexed keywords

ECOINVENT; EMERGY CALCULATOR; GRAPH SEARCH; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY; OPEN-SOURCE;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

LIFE CYCLE;

ALGORITHM; DRINKING WATER; EMERGY; EXERGY; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MEMORY; SOFTWARE;

VITACEAE;

EID: 84868554048     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.09.013     Document Type: Article

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