A review on advances of torrefaction technologies for biomass processing

Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery - Tập 2 Số 4 - Trang 349-369 - 2012
Bimal Acharya1, Idris Sule1, Animesh Dutta1
1School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

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