Ranking Renewable and Fossil Fuels on Global Warming Potential Using Respiratory Quotient Concept

Journal of Combustion

Volumn 2018, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Annamalai, Kalyan ^a   Thanapal, Siva Sankar ^a   Ranjan, Devesh ^b  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 85042590032     PISSN: 20901968     EISSN: 20901976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2018/1270708     Document Type: Article

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