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Life Cycle Analysis of Biofuels
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of transportation fuels from biomass resources is a cradle to grave evaluation of energy and environmental issues associated with producing, collecting, and transporting the biomass, converting the biomass into transportation fuels, and distributing and using the transportation fuel in motor vehicles. Biomass transportation fuel LCAs frequently include an assessment of the petroleum derived product that they will displace as a means to compare the two.

 


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      Author:   Seungdo Kim and Bruce E. Dale
Last Modified: 11/3/2008
  
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