Biomass as a Nonfossil Fuel Source

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Content: 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.

Author(s): Donald L. Klass (Eds.)
Series: ACS Symposium Series 144
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Year: 1981

Language: English
Pages: 548
City: Washington