Life-cycle energy and greenhouse gas emission impacts of different corn ethanol plant types

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Wang, Michael ^a   Wu, May ^a   Huo, Hong ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn ethanol; Ethanol plants; Greenhouse gas emissions; Life cycle analysis

Indexed keywords

COGENERATION PLANTS; ETHANOL; FUELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; NATURAL GAS; WOOD PRODUCTS;

COMBINED HEAT AND POWER; CORN-ETHANOL; DISTILLER GRAIN; ETHANOL PLANTS; FUEL ETHANOL; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; NATURAL GAS PRICE; TRANSPORTATION FUELS;

ETHANOL FUELS;

EID: 34547629220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/2/2/024001     Document Type: Article

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