Priority of domestic biomass resources for energy: Importance of national environmental targets in a climate perspective

Energy

Volumn 124, Issue , 2017, Pages 295-309

  Tonini, Davide ^a   Vadenbo, Carl ^b   Astrup, Thomas Fruergaard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Consequential LCA; Indirect land use changes; LUC; Manure; Optimization

Indexed keywords

BIOGAS; COAL COMBUSTION; COAL DEPOSITS; COAL INDUSTRY; CROPS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; FERTILIZERS; GLOBAL WARMING; LAND USE; LIFE CYCLE; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MANURES; NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS; OPTIMIZATION;

BIO-ENERGY; CONSEQUENTIAL LCA; CONSEQUENTIAL LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT; DOMESTIC RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL TARGETS; FOSSIL ENERGY RESOURCES; INDIRECT LAND-USE CHANGES; RENEWABLE ENERGIES;

BIOMASS;

BIOENERGY; BIOFUEL; BIOGAS; COMBUSTION; CULTIVATION; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GLOBAL WARMING; LAND USE CHANGE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MANURE; NATURAL GAS;

DENMARK;

EID: 85013156217     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.02.037     Document Type: Article

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