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Modeling The Feasibility Of Corn Stover Combustion As A Heat Source At Corn Ethanol Plants, Sulekha Tamvada

Theses and Dissertations

Alternative energy sources are of prime interest for most of the nations across the world. Rising fuel prices and depleting petroleum reserves are of serious national and global concern. Bio-fuels if proved feasible for larger scale implementation could become the ideal breakthrough in easing the extensive dependence on fossil fuels and retaining the current engine technology of fossil fuels. Current methods of producing bio-fuels rely heavily on the consumption of non-renewable energy in the production process. Therefore, it is desirable to find renewable alternatives to these non-renewable energy sources.

Although bio-mass based fuels have been tested and proven to be …