Pretreatment of sunflower stalks for biogas production

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 735-740

  Maroušek, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Biogas; Steam explosion; Sunflower stalks; Underwater hot maceration

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

BIOGAS PRODUCTION; HEAVY CONSTRUCTION; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; PROCESS PARAMETERS; STEAM EXPLOSION; SUNFLOWER STALKS; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; UNDERWATER HOT MACERATION;

BIOGAS;

HELIANTHUS;

EID: 84885390400     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-012-0548-4     Document Type: Article

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