Carbon and nitrogen trade-offs in biomass energy production

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 389-397

  Čuček, Lidija ^a   Klemeš, Jiří Jaromír ^a   Kravanja, Zdravko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Bioethanol; Biomass combustion; Carbon footprint; LCA; Nitrogen footprint; Rape methyl ester

Indexed keywords

BIOETHANOL; BIOMASS; CARBON FOOTPRINT; COAL COMBUSTION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ESTERS; ETHANOL; FOSSIL FUELS; LIFE CYCLE; NITROGEN; OILSEEDS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY;

BIO-ETHANOL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS COMBUSTION; CARBON AND NITROGEN; ENERGY GENERATIONS; FOSSIL ENERGY SOURCES; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); NITROGEN FOOTPRINTS; RAPE METHYL ESTERS;

COAL INDUSTRY;

BRASSICA NAPUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84862215482     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-012-0468-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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