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Nancy Jan Sliper, “Energy Utilization and Conversion in Modern Biomass Conversion Technologies”, Journal of Computational Intelligence in Materials Science, vol.2, pp. 001-011, 2024. doi: 10.53759/832X/JCIMS202402001.
