Biofuels for Road Transport : A Seed to Wheel Perspective Hardback
by Lucas Reijnders, Mark Huijbregts
Part of the Green Energy and Technology series
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“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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:170 pages, VII, 170 p.
- Publisher:Springer London Ltd
- Publication Date:12/01/2009
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- ISBN:9781848821378
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:170 pages, VII, 170 p.
- Publisher:Springer London Ltd
- Publication Date:12/01/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781848821378
