Promoting energy conservation in China's iron & steel sector

Energy

Volumn 73, Issue , 2014, Pages 465-474

  Lin, Boqiang ^a,b   Wang, Xiaolei ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China's iron steel industry; Co integration method; Energy conservation; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

IRON; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STEELMAKING;

COINTEGRATION; ELASTICITY COEFFICIENTS; ENERGY CONSERVATION POTENTIAL; ENERGY SAVING POTENTIAL; ENERGY-INTENSIVE SECTORS; LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; UNCERTAINTY PROBLEMS;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

ELASTICITY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY POLICY; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 84905726446     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2014.06.036     Document Type: Article

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