Biomass Refineries Based on Hybrid Thermochemical-Biological Processing-An Overview

Biorefineries-Industrial Processes and Products: Status Quo and Future Directions

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 227-252

  Brown, Robert C ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass refineries; Fermentation of bio oils; Gasification based systems; Pyrolysis based systems; Syngas fermentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889775008     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527619849.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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