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" Sugarcane as biofuel feedstock : "
Barnabas Gikonyo, editor.
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BL
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721311
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b541017
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Barnabas Gikonyo, editor.
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Sugarcane as biofuel feedstock : : advances toward a sustainable energy solution\ Barnabas Gikonyo, editor.
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Oakville, ON: Apple Academic Press, [2015] ©2015
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1498728839
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: 9781498728836
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Part 1. Why sugarcane? --;part 2. Cultivation and optimization processes --;part 3. Economic and environmental factors --;part 4. Options for the future.
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As the world's energy hunger grows ever larger, fossil fuel reserves are diminishing-and concerns about climate change remind us that our love affair with fossil fuels cannot continue much longer. This has inspired intense research into sustainable energy sources. Biofuels seemed initially promising, but the world soon realized that food-based biofuel has its own dangers. Second-generation biofuels, however, use biomass from crops' inedible parts-such as the stalks and leaves of sugarcane-offering a far more practical, sustainable, and commercially viable solution. In this book, researchers fro.
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Biomass energy.
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Energy crops.
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Sugarcane.
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SB231.B376 9999
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Barnabas Gikonyo
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