Life-Cycle Assessment of Biofuels

Biofuels: Alternative Feedstocks and Conversion Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 25-50

  Gnansounou, Edgard ^a   Dauriat, Arnaud ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b ENERS Energy Concept   (Switzerland)

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EID: 85018342362     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385099-7.00002-4     Document Type: Chapter

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