Biofuel Economics

Plant Biomass Conversion

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 329-354

  Klein Marcuschamer, Daniel ^a   Holmes, Brad ^a   Simmons, Blake A ^b   Blanch, Harvey W ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass hydrolysates; Enzymatic hydrolysis; Lignocellulosic biomass; Transportation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867657996     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470959138.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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