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Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Frank Kreith, Susan Krumdieck
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
790 pages
30h 5m
English
CRC Press
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209Capturing Solar Energy through Biomass
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vary widely among plant parts. For example, corn grain is mostly starch (72 wt.%) with
a relatively small amount of ber (13 wt.%) while corn stover, that part of the crop left on
the eld, is mostly ber (84 wt.%) with very little starch content. Often the ber, which is a
polymeric composite of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, is reported in terms of these
three constituents. Biochemical and thermochemical process design requires knowledge
of the organic components because they inuence the nal product composition.
Proximate analysis is important in developing ...
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ISBN: 9781466556966