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Energy Fuels 2010, 24, 5660–5668 Published on Web 09/14/2010

: DOI:10.1021/ef100957a

Bioslurry as a Fuel. 2. Life-Cycle Energy and Carbon Footprints of Bioslurry Fuels from Mallee Biomass in Western Australia Yun Yu and Hongwei Wu* Curtin Centre for Advanced Energy Science and Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia Received July 26, 2010. Revised Manuscript Received September 2, 2010

This paper reports a life-cycle assessment on energy and carbon footprints of bio-oil/char slurry (i.e., bioslurry) fuel from mallee in Western Australia (WA). The results demonstrate that bioslurry fuels have small energy and carbon footprints,