Are herbaceous perennial grasses suitable feedstock for thermochemical conversion pathways?

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 91, Issue , 2016, Pages 350-357

  Scordia, Danilo ^a   van den Berg, Douwe ^b   van Sleen, Peter ^b   Alexopoulou, Efthymia ^c   Cosentino, Salvatore Luciano ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b BTG BIOMASS TECHNOLOGY GROUP BV   (Netherlands)

^c Center for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving CRES   (Greece)

^d CNR IVALSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bioconversion; Biomass quality; Energy crops; Giant reed; Miscanthus; Saccharum

Indexed keywords

BIOCONVERSION; CELLULOSE; CLONING; CROPS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; FEEDSTOCKS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BIOMASS QUALITY; ENERGY CROPS; GIANT REED; MISCANTHUS; SACCHARUM;

BIOMASS;

BIOENERGY; BIOMASS; BULK DENSITY; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; CLONE; ENERGY CROP; GRASS; HEATING; HERB; SUGAR CANE; THERMOCHEMISTRY;

BIOMASS; CLIMATES; E I S; FARM CROPS; GRASSES; HERBS;

ARUNDO DONAX; MISCANTHUS; MISCANTHUS SINENSIS; MISCANTHUS X GIGANTEUS; POACEAE; SACCHARUM; SACCHARUM SPONTANEUM;

EID: 84979911713     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2016.07.019     Document Type: Article

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