Exergy based renewability assessment: Case study to ecological wastewater treatment

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 58, Issue , 2015, Pages 392-401

  Shao, Ling ^a,b   Chen, G Q ^c,d  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b China University of Geosciences Beijing)   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Constructed wetland; Emergy; Exergy; Renewability assessment; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; EXERGY; RECLAMATION; WETLANDS;

CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; ECOLOGICAL EVALUATION; ECOLOGICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENTS; EMERGY; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; RENEWABILITY ASSESSMENT; RENEWABLE AND NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES; RESOURCES UTILIZATIONS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; EMERGY; EXERGY; NONRENEWABLE RESOURCE; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RESOURCE USE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84933501857     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.06.010     Document Type: Article

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