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Biofuels for Road Transport
eBook - A Seed to Wheel Perspective, Green Energy and Technology
ISBN/EAN: 9781848821385
Umbreit-Nr.: 1806787
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 170 S., 1.39 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 19.12.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- <P>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.</P>
- Kurztext
- <P>"Biofuels for Road Transport: A Seed to Wheel Perspective" reviews the history, the current status and perspectives for biofuels used in road transport. The topic is approached from a seed-to-wheel perspective covering the full life cycle of the biofuel.</P>