Life cycle impacts of ethanol production from spruce wood chips under high-gravity conditions

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Janssen, Matty ^a   Xiros, Charilaos ^a,b   Tillman, Anne Marie ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acidification potential; Ethanol production; Eutrophication potential; Global warming potential; High gravity hydrolysis and fermentation; Life cycle assessment; Photochemical ozone creation potential; Renewable and non renewable energy use; Spruce wood chips; Technology development

Indexed keywords

DETOXIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; ENZYMES; ETHANOL; EUTROPHICATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GRAVITATION; WOOD; WOOD PRODUCTS;

ETHANOL PRODUCTION; EUTROPHICATION POTENTIALS; GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL; HIGH GRAVITY; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); NON-RENEWABLE ENERGY USE; PHOTOCHEMICAL OZONE CREATION POTENTIALS; SPRUCE WOOD CHIPS; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT;

LIFE CYCLE;

ACIDIFICATION; ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; ENERGY USE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ETHANOL; EUTROPHICATION; FERMENTATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLYSIS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

CHIPS; ENERGY; ETHANOL; PICEA; PRODUCTION; RENEWABLE RESOURCES;

PICEA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84963972123     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-016-0468-3     Document Type: Article

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