Switchgrass as an alternate feedstock for power generation: An integrated environmental, energy and economic life-cycle assessment

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 233-249

  Qin, Xiaoyun ^a   Mohan, Tanya ^a   El Halwagi, Mahmoud ^a   Cornforth, Gerald ^b   McCarl, Bruce A ^b  

^a Texas A M University   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass utilization; Carbon tax; Green house gases; Life cycle analysis; Switchgrass

Indexed keywords

PANICUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 33750702812     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-006-0065-4     Document Type: Article

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