| Author | : Lucas Reijnders |
| File Size | : 49,7 Mb |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 19 December 2008 |
| ISBN | : 9781848821385 |
| Pages | : 176 pages |
Biofuels for Road Transport by Lucas Reijnders Book PDF Summary
“Biofuels for Road Transport: A Seed to Wheel Perspective” provides a review of the history, the current status and perspectives for biofuels used in road transport, across the full ‘seed-to-wheel’ life cycle of these fuels. Successive chapters cover the history of biofuels; the first- and second-generation liquid fuels and biofuels for powering electric vehicles; fossil fuel replacement, land requirement, greenhouse gas balances and environmental burdens of ethanol, esters derived from fatty acids (‘biodiesel’), Fischer-Tropsch diesel and HTU diesel; competing technologies (fossil fuels, increases in energy-efficiency and photovoltaic power) and how they compare to biofuels; and the perspectives for biofuels. Cost, availability, technological development, competition with biomass for food and for soil organic carbon and environmental perspectives are also discussed.