The Global Demand for Biofuels: Technologies, Markets and Policies

Biomass to Biofuels: Strategies for Global Industries

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 27-54

  Scheffran, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bio butanol, bulk intermediate for chemical synthesis; Biofuel market and high level of public support; Biofuel policies and markets in selected countries; Future biofuel projections and international trade; Global demand for biofuels technologies, markets and policies; Global production and million tonnes oil equivalent (MTOE); Important biofuels ethanol and biodiesel; Renewable fuels in transportation sector

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883272157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470750025.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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