Energy, feed and land-use balances of refining winter wheat to ethanol

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 521-533

  Bentsen, Niclas S ^a   Thorsen, Bo J ^a   Felby, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bioethanol; Energy loss; Energy system performance; Land use

Indexed keywords

COMBINED HEAT AND POWER GENERATION; CONVERSION ROUTES; EMPIRICAL DATA; ENERGY LOSS; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; ENERGY PURPOSE; ENERGY SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; ETHANOL PRODUCTION; ETHANOL SYSTEMS; INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY; LARGE-SCALE PROCESSING; PERCENTAGE POINTS; PROTEIN PRODUCTION; SYSTEM ENERGY; WINTER WHEAT;

BIOETHANOL; DATA PROCESSING; ECONOMICS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ETHANOL; LAND USE; PETROLEUM REFINING;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 70349512320     PISSN: 1932104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bbb.170     Document Type: Article

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