Closing coffee production loops with waste to ethanol in Matagalpa, Nicaragua

Energy for Sustainable Development

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-50

  Ferrell, J ^a   Cockerill, K ^a  

^a Energy for Sustainable Development   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Coffee; Ethanol; Nicaragua; Sweet water; Wet milling

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOETHANOL; BIOFUELS; BYPRODUCTS; COFFEE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EFFLUENTS; ETHANOL; EUTROPHICATION; GROUNDWATER; MILLING (MACHINING); RIVER POLLUTION; SUGARS; SURFACE WATERS; THERMAL PROCESSING (FOODS); WATER; YEAST;

CARBOHYDRATE RESOURCES; CONTAMINATED DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS; NICARAGUA; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; SURFACE WATER SOURCES; SWEET WATERS; WET MILLING;

POTABLE WATER;

BIOENERGY; BIOFUEL; BIOMASS POWER; COFFEE; EFFLUENT; ENERGY RESOURCE; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; MILLING; PH; SUCROSE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; YEAST;

MATAGALPA; NICARAGUA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESPERANZA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

EID: 84858334924     PISSN: 09730826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.esd.2011.12.008     Document Type: Article

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