Utilization of sweet sorghum as a catch crop for providing raw materials for the production of bioethanol and biogas

Chemical Engineering Transactions

Volumn 29, Issue , 2012, Pages 1135-1140

  Theuretzbacher, Franz ^a   Kravanja, Philipp ^b   Becker, Manuel ^a   Bauer, Alexander ^a   Amon, Barbara ^a   Friedl, Anton ^b   Potthast, Antje ^a   Amon, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGAS; CROPS; ETHANOL; FEEDSTOCKS;

ALTERNATIVE FEEDSTOCKS; BIOMASS POTENTIAL; CATCH CROPS; PROCESSING LINES; SWEET SORGHUM; VEGETATION PERIODS; WATER DEMAND;

BIOETHANOL;

EID: 84870791812     PISSN: 22839216     EISSN: 22839216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3303/CET1229190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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