Biofuels: The environment-friendly energy carriers

Biotechnology for Environmental Management and Resource Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 125-148

  Gupta, Rishi ^a   Bhardwaj, Kailash N ^a   Choudhary, Chittpurna ^a   Chandna, Piyush ^a   Jain, Kavish Kumar ^a   Kaur, Amandeep ^a   Kumar, Sandeep ^a   Shrivastava, Bhuvnesh ^a   Ninawe, Suchita ^b   Singh, Ajay ^c   Kuhad, Ramesh Chander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c Lystek International Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternative energy; Bioalcohols; Biofuels; GHG emissions; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957030836     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-0876-1_8     Document Type: Chapter

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