Life Cycle Assessment of landfill biogas management: Sensitivity to diffuse and combustion air emissions

Waste Management

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 401-411

  Beylot, Antoine ^a   Villeneuve, Jacques ^a   Bellenfant, Gaël ^a  

^a BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

Biogas; Landfill; Life Cycle Assessment; Sensitivity analysis; Waste management

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VALUES; BIOGAS UPGRADING; COMBINED HEAT AND POWER PRODUCTION; COMBUSTION AIR; COMBUSTION EMISSION FACTORS; COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGY; ECOTOXICITY; EMISSION FACTORS; EXTREME VALUE; HUMAN TOXICITY; KEY PARAMETERS; KEYPOINTS; LANDFILLING; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY; MANAGEMENT OPTIONS; NON-TOXIC; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; OXIDATION RATES; PHOTOCHEMICAL OXIDANTS; TRACE GAS CONCENTRATIONS; TRACE POLLUTANT; WASTE LANDFILLING; WASTE MANAGEMENT OPTIONS;

BIOGAS; BUSES; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMBUSTION; ENGINES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; FUELS; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; LAND FILL; POWER GENERATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOXICITY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

LIFE CYCLE;

BENZENE; BIOGAS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON DISULFIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHLOROBENZENE; ETHYLENE; FORMALDEHYDE; FUEL; ISOBUTYLENE; METHANE; STYRENE; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

BIOGAS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMBUSTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LANDFILL; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; EUTROPHICATION; LANDFILL; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; OZONE DEPLETION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

BIOFUELS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFUSE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CHANDIPURA VIRUS;

EID: 84874336811     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.08.017     Document Type: Article

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