Key issues in conducting life cycle assessment of bio-based renewable energy sources

Green Energy and Technology

Volumn 0, Issue 9781447153634, 2013, Pages 13-36

  Wiloso, Edi Iswanto ^a   Heijungs, Reinout ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomass; Combustion; Corn; Fermentation; Starch

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; BIOMASS; COMBUSTION; FERMENTATION; LAND USE; NATURAL RESOURCES; STARCH;

CORN; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; INDIRECT LAND-USE CHANGES; INVENTORY ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; STANDARDIZED METHODS;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84922072854     PISSN: 18653529     EISSN: 18653537     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-5364-1_2     Document Type: Chapter

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