Life cycle assessment of biomass-to-energy systems in Ireland modelled with biomass supply chain optimisation based on greenhouse gas emission reduction

Energy

Volumn 109, Issue , 2016, Pages 1040-1055

  Murphy, Fionnuala ^a   Sosa, Amanda ^a   McDonnell, Kevin ^a   Devlin, Ger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Acidification potential; Bioenergy; Energy requirements; Greenhouse gas emissions; LCA (Life cycle assessment); Optimisation

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; BIOMASS; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; OPTIMIZATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SUPPLY CHAINS;

BIO-ENERGY; ENERGY REQUIREMENTS; EUTROPHICATION POTENTIALS; GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION REDUCTION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); OPTIMISATIONS; PRODUCTION AND TRANSPORTATIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGY PENETRATIONS;

LIFE CYCLE;

ACIDIFICATION; ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; BIOENERGY; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTION CONTROL; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

IRELAND;

CHANDIPURA VIRUS;

EID: 84973158826     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.04.125     Document Type: Article

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