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Biomass energy

Here are entered works on energy from fuels produced from plant or animal sources, such as forestry byproducts or agricultural waste, or on the fuels themselves. Works on the total mass of living matter within a given unit of environmental area are entered under Biomass.

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• Biomass energy -- Periodicals
• Biomass energy -- United States

• Bio-energy (Biomass energy)
• Bioenergy (Biomass energy)
• Biofuels
• Biological fuels
• Biomass as fuel
• Energy, Biomass
• Renewable fuels
• Biofuel

• Energy From Biological Processes (1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • Volume I: PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume II: PDF files at Princeton

• Bioconversion of Organic Residues for Rural Communities, by Conference on the State of the Art of Bioconversion of Organic Residues for Rural Communities (illustrated HTML at UNU)

• Potential Environmental Impacts of Bioenergy Crop Production (OTA-BP-E-118; 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Biomass as Fuel in Small Boilers (Tokyo: Asian Productivity Organization, c2009), by Arvind Kumar Asthana (PDF with commentary at apo-tokyo.org)

• BioResources (2005-) (full serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Fuels and Combustion (first edition; New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1952), by Marion L. Smith and Karl W. Stinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Conservation of Fuel in the United States: An Outline for a Proposed Course of Lectures in Higher Educational Institutions, Prepared for the United States Fuel Administration, Washington, DC (New Haven: Wilson H. Lee Co., 1918), by L. P. Breckenridge (page images here at Penn)
• Peat and Its Uses, As Fertilizer and Fuel (New York: O. Judd and Co., c1866), by Samuel W. Johnson
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Brennstoff-Chemie (in German) (partial serial archives)

• Oil and Gas Science and Technology / Revue d'IFP Energies Nouvelles (articles in English and French) (partial serial archives)

• Increased Automobile Fuel Efficiency and Synthetic Fuels: Alternatives for Reducing Oil Imports (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Concours International de Moteurs et Appareils Utilisant l'Alcool Dénaturé Ayant eu Lieu à Paris en Mai 1902: Rapports des Jurys (in French; Paris: Imp. Nationale, 1902), contrib. by Max Ringelmann, L. Lindet, E. Sorel, and H. De la Valette
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some illustrations and figures omitted
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Biodiesel in India: Value Chain Organisation and Policy Options For Rural Development (2009), by Tilman Altenburg, Hildegard Dietz, Matthias Hahl, Nikos Nikolidakis, Christina Rosendahl, and Kathrin Seelige (PDF in Germany)

• Replacing Gasoline: Alternative Fuels for Light-Duty Vehicles (OTA-E-364; 1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Potential Environmental Impacts of Bioenergy Crop Production (OTA-BP-E-118; 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Food Values of Breadfruit, Taro Leaves, Coconut, and Sugar Cane (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 64; Honolulu: The Museum, 1929), by Carey D. Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Linen Trade of Europe During the Spinning-Wheel Period (Belfast: M'Caw, Stevenson and Orr, 1920), by John Horner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Food Values of Breadfruit, Taro Leaves, Coconut, and Sugar Cane (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 64; Honolulu: The Museum, 1929), by Carey D. Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Gasohol: A Technical Memorandum (1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future (Washington: World Bank, 2015), by Marianne Fay, Stephane Hallegatte, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Julie Rozenberg, Ulf Narloch, and Tom Kerr (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)

• Coal in Our Veins: A Personal Journey (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2012), by Erin Ann Thomas (PDF files with commentary at Project Muse)

• Environmental Issues of Synthetic Transportation Fuels From Coal (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform (Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Jakob Skovgaard and Harro van Asselt (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Coal: Energy for the Future (1995), by National Research Council Board on Energy and Environmental Systems (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Coal Pyrolysis (Amsterdam et al.: Elsevier, 1982), by George R. Gavalas (PDF files at Caltech)
• Points on Coal and the Coal Business (Myerstown, PA: Feese and Uhrich, 1887), by Charles Miesse
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Assessment of Coal-Based Technologies for Electric Power Generation: Emission and Cost Estimates for Methanol and SNG Production and Combustion (final consultant report; Sacramento: California Energy Commission, 1982), by O. W. Hargrove (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines (based on the second edition, 1866), by William Stanley Jevons (HTML with commentary at eoearth.org)

• The Economic Geology of The Central Coalfield Of Scotland, Area IX: Carluke, Strathaven, And Larkhall, With Braidwood, Netherburn, Auchenheath, Blackwood, And Stonehouse (Edinburgh: Printed under authority of HMSO by Morrison and Gibb, 1921), by L. W. Hinxman, R. G. Carruthers, Murray Macgregor, and C. H. Dinham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Coal Fields of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Washington and Greene Counties: Fields of Coking Coal Located in Eastern Greene and Southeastern Washington Counties, Owned and Largely Controlled by J.V. Thompson (c1907), by John W. Boileau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Continuous Hydraulic Classification: Constitution of the Teeter Column Throughout Its Depth (Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1946), by Glen Dale Coe, I. L. Feld, M. F. Williams, and William Hawes Coghill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coal in Our Veins: A Personal Journey (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2012), by Erin Ann Thomas (PDF files with commentary at Project Muse)

• Coal-Pyrite Flotation in Concentrated Pulp: A Pilot Plant Study (Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations #8239, 1977), by Kenneth J. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coal Exports and Port Development (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Coal: Energy for the Future (1995), by National Research Council Board on Energy and Environmental Systems (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• The Direct Use of Coal: Prospects and Problems of Production and Combustion (1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Federal Financial Incentives to Induce Early Experience Producing Unconventional Liquid Fuels (c2008), by Frank A. Camm, James T. Bartis, and Charles J. Bushman (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• An Assessment of Development and Production Potential of Federal Coal Leases (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs (2008), by Michael A. Toman, Aimee E. Curtright, David Ortiz, Joel Darmstadter, and Brian Shannon (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Leonardite: A Lignite Byproduct (report of investigations 5611; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1960), by Walter W. Fowkes and Clyde M. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)

• Audels Oil Burner Guide: Installing, Servicing, Repairing (New York: T. Audel and Co., c1947), by Frank Duncan Graham (page images at HathiTrust)

• Liquid Hydrogen as a Propulsion Fuel, 1945-1959, by John L. Sloop (HTML at NASA)

• Natural Gasoline and the Volatile Hydrocarbons (Tulsa: Sponsored by Natural Gasoling Association of America, c1948), by George Granger Brown, Donald L. Katz, George G. Oberfell, and R. C. Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natural Gasoline: Testing, Manufacturing and Properties (first edition, 1924), by George G. Oberfell and R. C. Alden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Uranium Production Technology (Princeton, NJ et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., c1959), ed. by Charles D. Harrington and Archie E. Ruehle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Peat and Its Uses, As Fertilizer and Fuel (New York: O. Judd and Co., c1866), by Samuel W. Johnson
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Aviation Fuels with Improved Fire Safety: A Proceedings (1997), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Aviation Fuels and Their Effects on Engine Performance (c1951), by Ethyl Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rocket Propellants (New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp.; London: Chapman and Hall, c1958), by Francis A. Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liquid Hydrogen as a Propulsion Fuel, 1945-1959, by John L. Sloop (HTML at NASA)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.