Sustainability assessment of cellulosic biorefinery stillage utilization methods using emergy analysis
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.04.085
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Cellulosic biofuels; Stillage utilization; Direct combustion; Fast pyrolysis; Emergy sustainability index;All these keywords.
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