Importance of life cycle assessment of renewable energy sources

Green Energy and Technology

Volumn 0, Issue 9781447153634, 2013, Pages 1-11

  Singh, Anoop ^a   Olsen, Stig Irving ^a   Pant, Deepak ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biomass; Expense; Lora; Transportation

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION;

ALLOCATION METHODS; COMMERCIAL-SCALE PRODUCTION; EXPENSE; HEAT PRODUCTION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LORA; RAW MATERIAL PRODUCTION; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 85030177837     PISSN: 18653529     EISSN: 18653537     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-5364-1_1     Document Type: Chapter

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