Life-cycle energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of production of bioethanol from sorghum in the United States
Open Access
- 1 January 2013
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Biotechnology for Biofuels
- Vol. 6 (1), 141
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1754-6834-6-141
Abstract
The availability of feedstock options is a key to meeting the volumetric requirement of 136.3 billion liters of renewable fuels per year beginning in 2022, as required in the US 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act. Life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of sorghum-based ethanol need to be assessed for sorghum to play a role in meeting that requirement.Keywords
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