Life cycle assessment of conventional and two-stage advanced energy-from-waste technologies for municipal solid waste treatment

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 100, Issue , 2015, Pages 212-223

  Evangelisti, Sara ^a   Tagliaferri, Carla ^a,b   Clift, Roland ^c   Lettieri, Paola ^a   Taylor, Richard ^b   Chapman, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Advance Plasma Power   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Combustion; Energy from waste technology; Gasification; Life cycle assessment; Pyrolysis

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; COMBUSTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; GASIFICATION; LAND FILL; LIFE CYCLE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PYROLYSIS; SYNTHESIS GAS MANUFACTURE; WASTE TREATMENT;

CONVENTIONAL TREATMENTS; ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; ENERGY FROM WASTES; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); NET ELECTRICAL EFFICIENCY; TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES;

WASTE INCINERATION;

EID: 84930377766     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.03.062     Document Type: Article

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