Biomass combustion and chemical looping for carbon capture and storage

Technologies for Converting Biomass to Useful Energy: Combustion, Gasification, Pyrolysis, Torrefaction and Fermentation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 129-174

  Desideri, Umberto ^a   Fantozzi, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1201/b14561     Document Type: Chapter

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