Anaerobic digestion of annual and multi-annual biomass crops

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 56, Issue , 2014, Pages 137-144

  Barbanti, Lorenzo ^a   Di Girolamo, Giuseppe ^a   Grigatti, Marco ^a   Bertin, Lorenzo ^a   Ciavatta, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anaerobic digestion; Biomass crops; Energy efficiency; Methane; Net energy yield

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADABILITY; BIOMASS; CALORIFIC VALUE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CROPS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LIGNIN; LIPIDS; METHANE; PLANTS (BOTANY); STARCH; SUGARS;

BIOMASS CROP; BIOMASS PRE TREATMENTS; BIOMASS SAMPLES; CUMULATIVE ENERGY DEMANDS; KINETICS OF DEGRADATION; LOWER HEATING VALUE; NET ENERGY YIELDS; PANICUM VIRGATUM;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; CARBOHYDRATE; CROP PROCESSING; DIGESTIBILITY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MAIZE;

EID: 84897877939     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2014.03.002     Document Type: Article

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