Greenhouse gas footprints of different biofuel production systems

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1661-1694

  Hoefnagels, Ric ^a   Smeets, Edward ^a   Faaij, André ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allocation; Biodiesel; Ethanol; Greenhouse gas balance land use change; Life cycle Assessment (LCA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956070292     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2010.02.014     Document Type: Article

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