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The biofuels handbook / edited by James G. Speight.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Royal Society of Chemistry Staff, Corporate Author.
- Series:
- RSC Energy Series
- RSC energy series, 1757-6741 ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biomass energy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (575 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : RSC Pub., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Petroleum-based fuels are well-established products that have served industry and consumers for more than one hundred years. However petroleum, once considered inexhaustible, is now being depleted at a rapid rate. As the amount of available petroleum decreases, the need for alternative technologies to produce liquid fuels that could potentially help prolong the liquid fuels culture and mitigate the forthcoming effects of the shortage of transportation fuels is being sought. The dynamics are now coming into place for the establishment of a synthetic fuels industry; the processes for recovery of
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Fuels from conventional and unconventional sources
- pt. 2. Fuels from cellulosic and lignocellulosic materials
- pt. 3. Fuels from waste materials.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-62198-129-0
- 1-84973-102-0
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