A spatially explicit techno-economic assessment of green biorefinery concepts

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 325-341

  Höltinger, Stefan ^a   Schmidt, Johannes ^a   Schönhart, Martin ^a   Schmid, Erwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bioeconomy; Green biorefinery; Mixed integer programming; Monte Carlo simulation; Techno economic assessment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOGAS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; ECONOMICS; FEEDSTOCKS; REFINING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREAS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

BIOECONOMY; GREEN BIOREFINERY; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS; TECHNO-ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84899923488     PISSN: 1932104X     EISSN: 19321031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bbb.1461     Document Type: Article

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