Life-cycle environmental and economic assessment of medical waste treatment

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 174, Issue , 2018, Pages 65-73

  Hong, Jingmin ^a   Zhan, Song ^a   Yu, Zhaohe ^a   Hong, Jinglan ^b   Qi, Congcong ^b  

^a LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chemical disinfection; Life cycle assessment; Life cycle costing; Medical waste; Pyrolysis; Steam sterilization

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COSTS; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); DISINFECTION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INCINERATION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; INVESTMENTS; LIFE CYCLE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PYROLYSIS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; STERILIZATION (CLEANING); WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE TREATMENT;

ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS; INDUSTRIAL HAZARDOUS WASTE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE COSTING; MEDICAL WASTE INCINERATIONS; MEDICAL WASTES; STEAM STERILIZATION;

WASTE INCINERATION;

EID: 85038829557     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.10.206     Document Type: Article

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