Integrating life cycle assessment and emergy synthesis for the evaluation of a dry steam geothermal power plant in Italy

Energy

Volumn 86, Issue , 2015, Pages 476-487

  Buonocore, Elvira ^a   Vanoli, Laura ^a   Carotenuto, Alberto ^a   Ulgiati, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Emergy accounting; Geothermal energy; Life cycle assessment

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY SECURITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; FOSSIL FUEL DEPOSITS; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; FOSSIL FUELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LIFE CYCLE; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; STEAM POWER PLANTS;

EMERGY ACCOUNTINGS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; EUTROPHICATION POTENTIALS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCE; POWER PLANT CONSTRUCTION; RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE;

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY;

CARBON EMISSION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EMERGY; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS;

ITALY;

EID: 84931577192     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.04.048     Document Type: Article

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