Biofuels generation from sweet sorghum: Fermentative hydrogen production and anaerobic digestion of the remaining biomass

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 110-119

  Antonopoulou, Georgia ^a,b   Gavala, Hariklia N ^a,b   Skiadas, Ioannis V ^a,b   Angelopoulos, K ^a   Lyberatos, Gerasimos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Fermentation; Hydrogen; Methane; Sweet sorghum

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; EFFLUENTS; METHANE;

BIOHYDROGEN PRODUCTION; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIMES; HYDROGENOGENIC PROCESS; HYDROGENOGENIC REACTOR; SWEET SORGHUM;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

BIOFUEL; HYDROGEN; METHANE;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; EFFLUENTS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; METHANE;

BIOFUEL; FERMENTATION; GAS PRODUCTION; HYDROGEN; METHANE; SORGHUM;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; EFFLUENT; EXTRACTION; FERMENTATION; GAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID; SORGHUM;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; FERMENTATION; HYDROGEN; METHANE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SORGHUM;

EID: 34848839615     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2006.11.048     Document Type: Article

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