Can natural gas warm the climate more than coal?

Fuel

Volumn 136, Issue , 2014, Pages 341-348

  Stanek, Wojciech ^a   Białecki, Ryszard ^a  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coal; Global warming; Greenhouse gases; Natural gas

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACITE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COAL; COAL TRANSPORTATION; FUELS; GAS COMPRESSORS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LIGNITE; NATURAL GAS; STEAM POWER PLANTS;

COAL TECHNOLOGIES; COMPRESSOR STATIONS; CUMULATIVE EMISSIONS; DIRECT COMBUSTION; ENERGY CONVERSION TECHNOLOGIES; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGIES; NATURAL GAS TECHNOLOGY;

NATURAL GAS TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84906548040     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2014.07.075     Document Type: Article

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