A process-oriented life-cycle assessment (LCA) model for environmental and resource-related technologies (EASETECH)

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2020, Pages 73-88

  Lodato, Concetta ^a   Tonini, Davide ^b   Damgaard, Anders ^a   Fruergaard Astrup, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biorefinery; EASETECH; Environmental assessment; Life cycle assessment; Material flow analysis; Resource recovery; Technology modelling; Unit process

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISTILLATION; ENERGY BALANCE; FERMENTATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; RECYCLING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85069865250     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-019-01665-z     Document Type: Article

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