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Exploring impacts of process technology development and regional factors on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of corn stover ethanol (2014)
Journal Article
McKechnie, J., Pourbafrani, M., Saville, B. A., & MacLean, H. L. (2015). Exploring impacts of process technology development and regional factors on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of corn stover ethanol. Renewable Energy, 76, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2014.11.088

This paper examines impacts of regional factors affecting biomass and process input supply chains and ongoing technology development on the life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of ethanol production from corn stover in the U.S. Corn stover suppl... Read More about Exploring impacts of process technology development and regional factors on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of corn stover ethanol.

Forest carbon accounting methods and the consequences of forest bioenergy for national greenhouse gas emissions inventories (2014)
Journal Article
McKechnie, J., Colombo, S., & MacLean, H. L. (2014). Forest carbon accounting methods and the consequences of forest bioenergy for national greenhouse gas emissions inventories. Environmental Science and Policy, 44, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2014.07.006

While bioenergy plays a key role in strategies for increasing renewable energy deployment, studies assessing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from forest bioenergy systems have identified a potential trade-off of the system with forest carbon stocks. O... Read More about Forest carbon accounting methods and the consequences of forest bioenergy for national greenhouse gas emissions inventories.

Impacts of pre-treatment technologies and co-products on greenhouse gas emissions and energy use of lignocellulosic ethanol production (2014)
Journal Article
Pourbafrani, M., McKechnie, J., Shen, T., Saville, B. A., & MacLean, H. L. (2014). Impacts of pre-treatment technologies and co-products on greenhouse gas emissions and energy use of lignocellulosic ethanol production. Journal of Cleaner Production, 78, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.04.050

Life cycle environmental performance of lignocellulosic ethanol produced through different production pathways and having different co-products has rarely been reported in the literature, with most studies focusing on a single pre-treatment and singl... Read More about Impacts of pre-treatment technologies and co-products on greenhouse gas emissions and energy use of lignocellulosic ethanol production.