Techno-economic study of biomass co-firing with and without CO2 capture in an Australian black coal-fired power plant

Energy Procedia

Volumn 37, Issue , 2013, Pages 6035-6042

  Khorshidi, Zakieh ^a,b   Ho, Minh T ^a,b   Wiley, Dianne E ^a,b  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomass; Carbon tax; Co firing; Coal fired plants; Renewable energy certificates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898749376     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2013.06.532     Document Type: Conference Paper

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