Energy and material recovery from biomass: The biorefinery approach. Concept overview and environmental evaluation

Energy Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 97-139

  Cherubini, Francesco ^a   Jungmeier, Gerfried ^a  

^a Institute of Energy Research   (Austria)

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