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Optimization of energy required and greenhouse gas emissions analysis for orange producers using data envelopment analysis approach
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In this paper, the authors used data envelopment analysis for measuring the efficiency of orchardists, discriminate efficient and inefficient produce from inefficient ones and identify wasteful uses of energy using data envelope analysis for orange production in Guilan province of Iran.About:
This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2014-02-15. It has received 153 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Data envelopment analysis.read more
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A comprehensive review of data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach in energy efficiency
Abbas Mardani,Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas,Dalia Streimikiene,Ahmad Jusoh,Masoumeh Khoshnoudi +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of 144 published scholarly papers appearing in 45 high-ranking journals between 2006 and 2015 have been obtained to achieve a comprehensive review of DEA application in energy efficiency, where the selected articles have been categorized based on year of publication; author (s) nationalities, scope of study, time duration, application area, study purpose, results and outcomes.
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A literature study for DEA applied to energy and environment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarized previous research efforts on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) applied to energy and environment in the past four decades, including concepts and methodologies on DEA environmental assessment.
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Modeling of energy consumption and environmental life cycle assessment for incineration and landfill systems of municipal solid waste management - A case study in Tehran Metropolis of Iran
Ashkan Nabavi-Pelesaraei,Reza Bayat,Homa Hosseinzadeh-Bandbafha,Hadi Afrasyabi,Kwok Wing Chau +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a feed-forward back-propagation model based on Levenberg-Marquardt training algorithm was used for predicting electricity and environmental factors against energy consumption for municipal solid waste management.
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DEA cross-efficiency evaluation considering undesirable output and ranking priority: a case study of eco-efficiency analysis of coal-fired power plants
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper presented an equitable model for efficiency evaluation of decision-making units with undesirable outputs and introduced a technique for cross-efficiency evaluation considering undesirable outputs, and a ranking priority model was proposed considering the decision making units' intentions of pursuing the best ranking positions.
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Multi-objective optimization of energy use and environmental emissions for walnut production using imperialist competitive algorithm
Majid Khanali,Asadollah Akram,Javad Behzadi,Fatemeh Mostashari-Rad,Zahra Saber,Kwok Wing Chau,Ashkan Nabavi-Pelesaraei +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the assessment of energy flow, environmental emissions of walnut orchards in Alborz province of Iran and their simultaneous optimization by multi-objective imperialist competitive algorithm are the main goals of this investigation.
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Improving energy productivity in paddy production through benchmarking—An application of data envelopment analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, a data envelopment analysis approach has been used to determine the efficiencies of farmers with regard to energy use in rice production activities in the alluvial zone in the state of West Bengal in India.
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An application of data envelopment analysis to irrigated dairy farms in Northern Victoria, Australia
Iain Fraser,D. Cordina +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to assess the technical efficiency of a sample of irrigated dairy farms in Northern Victoria, Australia, and it is proposed that DEA is a useful tool in helping to benchmark the dairy industry which is continually striving to improve its productive efficiency.
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Energy consumption and CO2 emissions analysis of potato production based on different farm size levels in Iran
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the energy consumption and CO2 emission of potato production in three different farm size sin Esfahan province of Iran and found that the most significant energy consumer was chemical fertilizers (49%), especially nitrogen (40%) and followed by seed with share of 24%.
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An analysis of energy use efficiency of canola production in Turkey
TL;DR: In this paper, a survey and economic analysis regarding the use of input have been performed with canola farmers in the Trakya region of Turkey; survey data were obtained from 100 farmers, face-to-face.
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Modeling of energy consumption and GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions in wheat production in Esfahan province of Iran using artificial neural networks
TL;DR: In this paper, an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model with 11-3-2 structure was used to predict wheat yield and GHG emissions in Esfahan province of Iran.