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Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Biofuels : = The Role of Co-products.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Biofuels :/
Reminder of title:	The Role of Co-products.
Author:	Zhang, Yizhen.
Description:	1 online resource (119 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-09B(E).
Subject:	Energy. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355968972

Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Biofuels : = The Role of Co-products.
Zhang, Yizhen.

Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Biofuels :The Role of Co-products. - 1 online resource (119 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

Biofuels are often forecast to provide significant reductions in the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transportation sector globally. Many countries have regarded bioenergy development as a solution to both climate change mitigation and foreign energy dependence. It is projected that biofuel production may contribute up to a quarter of transportation fuel supply by 2050. But uncertainties and concerns still remain with respect to the environmental performance of biofuels, including their contribution to GHGs. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a powerful tool for evaluating the environmental impacts of emerging technologies. However, existing LCAs are inconsistent in their selection of system boundaries, modeling assumptions, and treatment of co-products, which lead to wide variations in results, and make the comparisons of biofuel pathways challenging. Co-products usually play an essential role in biofuel production system, both economically and environmentally. Thus the treatment strategies of co-product are considered critical to LCA results.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355968972Subjects--Topical Terms:

784773
Energy.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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