Reassessing the Progress in the Production of Advanced Biofuels in the Current Competitive Environment and Beyond: What Are the Successes and Where Progress Eludes Us and Why

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 54, Issue 42, 2015, Pages 10170-10182

  Papoutsakis, Eleftherios T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

FINANCE; MOLECULES;

ADVANCED BIOFUELS; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT; ECONOMIC FEASIBILITIES; OIL AND NATURAL GAS; PATHWAY ENGINEERINGS; RESEARCH FUNDING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BIOFUELS;

EID: 84945950526     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.5b01695     Document Type: Review

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