Biofuels for Road Transport A Seed to Wheel Perspective By: Lucas Reijnders; Mark Huijbregts Publisher: Springer Print ISBN: 9781848821378, 1848821379 eText ISBN: 9781848821385, 1848821387 Copyright year: 2009 Format: PDF Available from $ 139.00 USD SKU: 9781848821385 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. Biofuels for Road Transport: A Seed to Wheel Perspective is a valuable reference for professional engineers, researchers and postgraduate students involved in biofuels, renewable energy (including bioenergy) and the automotive industry. SKU: 9781848821378 Download now: https://ebookscoffee.sellpass.io/products/Biofuels-for-Road-Transport
