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Handbook of Bioenergy Crop Plants

Handbook of Bioenergy Crop Plants Business & Technology

Handbook of Bioenergy Crop Plants

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Description
Devastating fossil fuel shortages loom in the future unless more renewable alternatives to energy are developed. This volume surveys the possibilities and challenges involved in biofuel production. The book explores the genetic improvement of bioenergy crops, ecological issues and biodiversity, feedstock logistics and enzymatic cell wall degradation to produce biofuels, and process technologies of liquid transportation fuels production. It also reviews international standards for fuel quality, issues related to biofuel-powered engines, life-cycle environmental impacts of biofuels compared with fossil fuels, and social concerns. The final sections profile a range of crops.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
876
Release Date:
2019-10-20
Publication Date:
2019-10-18
Publisher:
CRC Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0367381591
ISBN13:
9780367381592
Weight:
1658 g
Height:
189 cm
Width:
246 cm
Thickness:
46 cm
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