Developing a process-level vulnerability assessment index and evaluating mitigation strategies of GHG emission in waste treatment plants for climate change

Proceedings - 7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software: Bold Visions for Environmental Modeling, iEMSs 2014

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages 2354-2361

  Pyo, SeHee ^a   Kim, MinJeong ^a,b   Lee, SeungChul ^a   Shi, Honglan ^a   Kim, Jeong Tai ^a   Yoo, Chang Kyoo ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change vulnerability assessment; Effluent quality index (EQI); Greenhouse gas (GHG); Operational cost index (OCI); Wastewater treatment process

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE DETECTION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; GAS EMISSIONS; GAS PLANTS; GLOBAL WARMING; QUALITY CONTROL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY;

COST INDEXES; EFFLUENT QUALITY; GREENHOUSE GAS (GHG); VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS;

GREENHOUSE GASES;

EID: 84911887891     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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