Depletion of the non-renewable natural resource reserves in copper, zinc, lead and aluminium production

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 313-321

  Boryczko, Bozena ^a   Hołda, Adam ^a   Kolenda, Zygmunt ^a  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cumulative exergy consumption; Entropy generation rate; Exergy; Thermo ecological cost

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; COAL DEPOSITS; COAL INDUSTRY; COPPER DEPOSITS; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENTROPY; EXERGY; NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS; ZINC;

ALUMINIUM PRODUCTION; CUMULATIVE EXERGY CONSUMPTION; ECOLOGICAL COSTS; EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGY; ENTROPY GENERATION RATE; FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; NON-RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES;

COPPER SMELTING;

EID: 84922898747     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.01.093     Document Type: Article

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