Exergy as a measure of resource use in life cyclet assessment and other sustainability assessment tools

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Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Finnveden, Goran ^a   Arushanyan, Yevgeniya ^a   Brandão, Miguel ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b STATE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Exergy; Life Cycle Assessment; Metals; Recycling; Resource use; Waste

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018908732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20799276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/resources5030023     Document Type: Article

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