Biomass as a nonfossil fuel source : based on a symposium sponsored by the Division of Petroleum Chemistry at the ACS/CSJ Chemical Congress (177th ACS National meeting), Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2, 1979 /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: American Chemical Society. Division of Petroleum Chemistry, ACS/CSJ Chemical Congress
Other Authors: Klass, Donald L.
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : American Chemical Society, 1981.
Series:ACS symposium series ; 144.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Industrial development of biomass energy sources / George P. Schaefer
  • Forest biomass for energy : a perspective / R.L. Sajdak, Y.Z. Lai, G.D. Mroz, and M.F. Jurgensen
  • Production of nonwoody land plants as a renewable energy source / Alex G. Alexander
  • Biomass production by freshwater and marine macrophytes / W.J. North, V.A. Gerard, and J.S. Kuwabara
  • Energy from fresh and brackish water aquatic plants / John R. Benemann
  • Multi-use crops and botanochemical production / M.O. Bagby, R.A. Buchanan, and F.H. Otey
  • Effects of reaction conditions on the aqueous thermochemical conversion of biomass to oil / P.M. Molton, R.K. Miller, J.A. Russell, and J.M. Donovan
  • Liquid hydrocarbon fuels from biomass / James L. Kuester
  • Key factors in the hydrolysis of cellulose / Jerome F. Saeman
  • Perspectives on the economic analysis of ethanol production from biomass / Harry J. Prebluda and Roger Williams, Jr.
  • Chemicals from biomass by improved enzyme technology / George H. Emert and Raphael Katzen
  • Methane production by anaerobic digestion of Bermuda grass / Donald L. Klass and Sambhunath Ghosh
  • Advanced digestion process development for methane production from biomass-waste blends / Sambhunath Ghosh and Donald L. Klass
  • Methane production from landfills : an introduction / Edward J. Daley, Ira J. Wright, and Robert E. Spitzka
  • Product distribution in the rapid pyrolysis of biomass/lignin for production of acetylene / Martha Graef, G. Graham Allen, and Barbara B. Krieger
  • The effects of residence time, temperature, and pressure on the steam gasification of biomass / Michael J. Antal, Jr.
  • Gasification of oak sawdust, mesquite, corn stover, and cotton gin trash in a countercurrent fluidized bed pilot reactor / Steven R. Beck, Maw Jong Wang, and James A. Hightower
  • Thermochemical gasification of woody biomass / H.F. Feldmann, P.S. Choi, H.N. Conkle, and S.P. Chauhan
  • Comparative economic analysis of chemicals and synthetic fuels from biomass / Fred A. Schooley, Ronald L. Dickenson, Stephen M. Kohan, Jerry L. Jones, Paul C. Meagher, Kent R. Ernest, Gwen Crooks, Katherine A. Miller, and Wing S. Fong
  • An analysis of gasohol energetics / William A. Scheller
  • Wood production energetics : an analysis for fuel applications / Norman Smith and Thomas J. Corcoran
  • Silvicultural systems for the energy efficient production of fuel biomass / F. Thomas Ledig
  • Electric power generation from wood waste : a case study / Richard T. Sheahan
  • A biomass allocation model : conversion of biomass to methanol / Y.K. Ahn
  • The energy plantation and the photosynthesis energy factory / Malcom D. Fraser, John F. Henry, Louis C. Borghi, and Norman J. Barbera.