Impact of air pollution control costs on the cost and spatial arrangement of cellulosic biofuel production in the U.S.

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2157-2164

  Murphy, Colin W ^a   Parker, Nathan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BIOFUELS; CELLULOSE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; ETHANOL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84894226885     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es405025h     Document Type: Article

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