Net Energy Balancing and Fuel-Cycle Analysis

Renewables-Based Technology: Sustainability Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 73-86

  Shapouri, Hosein ^a   Wang, Michael ^b   Duffield, James A ^a  

^a Department of Health   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass feedstock as energy product; Environment sustainability; Greenhouse gas emissions; GREET model; Measuring energy and environmental sustainability of biofuels; National energy security concerns; Negative net energy balance (NEB); Net energy balancing energy efficiency comparisons; Net energy balancing and fuel cycle analysis; Process based allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 41749094979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470022442.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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