Growing duckweed for bioethanol production

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2010, ASABE 2010

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 4743-4749

  Cui, Weihua ^a   Xu, Jiele ^b   Cheng, Jay J ^b   Stomp, Anne Marie ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioethanol; Duckweed; Nutrient; Photoperiod; Starch; Swine wastewater; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BIOETHANOL; CROPS; EFFLUENTS; ENGINEERS; ETHANOL; STARCH; TEMPERATURE; WASTEWATER;

BIO-ETHANOL PRODUCTION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DUCKWEED; EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE; FLOATING AQUATIC PLANTS; GROWTH CONDITIONS; LIGHT INTENSITY; NORTH CAROLINA; NUTRIENT LEVELS; PHOTOPERIOD; STARCH ACCUMULATION; STARCH CONTENTS; STARCH PRODUCTION; SWINE LAGOON EFFLUENTS; SWINE WASTEWATER;

NUTRIENTS;

EID: 78649693185     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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