Emergy evaluation of the urban solid waste handling in liaoning province, China

Energies

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5486-5506

  Liu, Gengyuan ^a   Yang, Zhifeng ^a   Chen, Bin ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Su, Meirong ^a   Zhang, Lixiao ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Emergy analysis; Environmental impacts; Liaoning Province; Urban solid waste

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; FLUIDIZED BEDS; INCINERATION; INVESTMENTS; LAND FILL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; OPERATING COSTS; SANITATION; SOLID WASTES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE TREATMENT;

COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; EMERGY ANALYSIS; LIAONING PROVINCE; TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES; TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL; URBAN WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE TREATMENT PROCESS;

WASTE INCINERATION;

EID: 84886810190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en6105486     Document Type: Article

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