Industry-Cost-Curve Approach for Modeling the Environmental Impact of Introducing New Technologies in Life Cycle Assessment

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 7543-7551

  Kätelhön, Arne ^a   Von Der Assen, Niklas ^a   Suh, Sangwon ^b   Jung, Johannes ^a   Bardow, André ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COSTS; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE;

CHLOR-ALKALI ELECTROLYSIS; COMPETING TECHNOLOGIES; CONSEQUENTIAL LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); NEW APPROACHES; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; SUBSTITUTION EFFECT;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ALKALI; CHLORINE; HYDROGEN; SODIUM HYDROXIDE;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTROKINESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HOMOGENEITY; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MARKET SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION PROCESS; COST; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROLYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INDUSTRY; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MARKET; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

GERMANY;

ALKALIES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; ELECTROLYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84936867994     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es5056512     Document Type: Review

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