Is Use of Both Pulpwood and Logging Residues Instead of Only Logging Residues for Bioenergy Development a Viable Carbon Mitigation Strategy?

Bioenergy Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 217-231

  Dwivedi, Puneet ^a   Bailis, Robert ^b   Khanna, Madhu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergy development; Carbon sequestration in wood products; Electricity generation; Pine plantations; Southern USA; Wood pellets

Indexed keywords

BIO-ENERGY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; PINE PLANTATIONS; SOUTHERN USA; WOOD PELLET;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRICITY; FORESTRY; LAND FILL; MANUFACTURE; PELLETIZING; TIMBER; WOOD PRODUCTS;

CARBON;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRICITY; FORESTRY; FORESTS; LAND FILL; PELLETING; PELLETS; PINUS; PLANTATIONS; WOOD; WOOD PRODUCTS;

PINUS ELLIOTTII;

EID: 84896706729     PISSN: 19391234     EISSN: 19391242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12155-013-9362-z     Document Type: Article

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