Sustainability Assessment of the Rare-Earth-Oxide Production Process and Comparison of Environmental Performance Improvements Based on Emergy Analysis
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rare-earth production; emergy analysis; emission impacts; emergy-based indicators; improvement of environmental performance;All these keywords.
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