Sustainability assessment of large-scale ethanol production from sugarcane

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 77-82

  Pereira, Consuelo L F ^a   Ortega, Enrique ^b  

^a Ecocert Brasil   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Emergy analysis; Ethanol; Life cycle assessment

Indexed keywords

EMBODIED ENERGY; EMERGY ANALYSIS; ENERGY CONTENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FEASIBILITY; ETHANOL PRODUCTION; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; LARGE-SCALE PRODUCTION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT; TRANSFORMITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ETHANOL FUELS; FOSSIL FUELS; LIFE CYCLE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ETHANOL;

EID: 71949111882     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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