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008			130521s2013 flua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2012021353
020			_a9781420089554 (hardback)
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dDLC
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aTP339 _b.L44 2012
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100	1		_aLee, Sunggyu. _9245351 _2Local
245	1	0	_aBiofuels and bioenergy _bprocesses and technologies _cSunggyu Lee, Y.T. Shah.
260			_aBoca Raton, FL _bTaylor & Francis _cc2013.
300			_axvii, 323 p. _bill. _c25 cm.
490	0		_aGreen chemistry and chemical engineering
520			_a"Preface Humans have a long history of using a wide variety of biomass resources as sources of energy and fuel. The discovery and use of fossil energy, represented largely by coal, natural gas, and petroleum, have drastically reduced the utilization of biomass fuels. The technologies of generating electricity using biomass, producing bioliquid fuels, and powering motor vehicles using bioalcohols and blended gasolines have been developed and practiced since the early twentieth century. Up until recently, however, development interest in biofuels had lessened due to the availability of relatively inexpensive fossil energy resources as well as the handling and transportation convenience of these conventional fuel sources. Due to the strong growth of global transportation fuel demand, sharply escalating worldwide fossil energy prices, fear over the dwindling supply of petroleum and natural gas for the near future, and credible evidence linking global warming and climate change issues with the emission of greenhouse gases, global interest and R&D efforts in renewable alternative fuels have become intense and fiercely competitive, targeting both short- and long-term solutions to alternative energy needs. Although there are a number of options and routes for energy sustainability and independence via renewable alternative energy, bioenergy and biofuels certainly possess outstanding potential to provide solutions and relief to many of the immediate, intermediate, and long-term societal needs of clean energy and their associated challenges"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650		0	_aBiomass energy. _962473 _2Local
700	1		_aShah, Yatish T. _9276304 _2Local
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