Improving Sustainability of the Corn-Ethanol Industry

Biofuels

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 223-234

  Gallagher, Paul W ^a   Shapouri, Hosein ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Changes in corn ethanol (CE) industry practices and improving sustainability; CO2 adjustment in changing ethanol industry; Corn processing industry and natural gas and market purchases of (coal based) electricity; Crop production and greenhouse gas emissions; Energy efficiency improvements on farm; Enough solar energy stored during plant growth; Improving sustainability of corn ethanol industry; Ratio of BTUs in ethanol; Woody crop combustion estimate from GREET

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952771653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470754108.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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