Farm-Gate to Plant-Gate Delivery of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks from Plant Biomass for Biofuel Production

Biofuels from Agricultural Wastes and Byproducts

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 117-159

  Ileleji, Klein E ^a   Sokhansanj, Shahab ^b   Cundiff, John S ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering ASABE ; Biomass Feedstock Logistic Simulator (BmFLS); Broken kernel and foreign material BCFM; Cotton gin waste (CGW); Damaged kernels total (DKT); Logistics of biomass feedstock handling at the plant gate; National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS); On farm logistics of biomass harvest and delivery; Related Agricultural Logistics Operations and Their Applications to Biomass; Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861484523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813822716.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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