Biofuels for Transport: An International Perspective
✍ Scribed by OECD
- Publisher
- OECD Publishing
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 215
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
In the absence of strong government policies, the IEA projects that the worldwide use of oil in transport will nearly double between 2000 and 2030, leading to a similar increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Bio fuels, such as ethanol, bio diese
✦ Table of Contents
Preliminaries......Page 1
FOREWORD......Page 3
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY......Page 11
1 INTRODUCTION......Page 25
2 FEEDSTOCK AND PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES......Page 33
3 OIL DISPLACEMENT AND GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION IMPACTS......Page 51
4 BIOFUEL COSTS AND MARKET IMPACTS......Page 67
5 VEHICLE PERFORMANCE POLLUTANT EMISSIONS AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS......Page 101
6 LAND USE AND FEEDSTOCK AVAILABILITY ISSUES......Page 123
7 RECENT BIOFUELS POLICIES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS......Page 147
8 BENEFITS AND COSTS OF BIOFUELS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY MAKING......Page 171
ABBREVIATIONS AND GLOSSARY......Page 191
REFERENCES......Page 195
✦ Subjects
Топливно-энергетический комплекс;Биотопливо, биоэнергетика;
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
<p><P><EM>Biofuels for Road Transport: A Seed to Wheel Perspective</EM> provides a review of the history, the current status and the impact of biofuels used in road transport, across the full ‘seed-to-wheel’ life cycle of these fuels. Successive chapters cover many issues relevant to the current deb
<P>Commercial air transport is a global multimillion dollar industry that underpins the world economy and facilitates the movement of over 3 billion passengers and 50 million tonnes of air freight worldwide each year.</P> <P></P> <P>With a clearly structured topic-based approach, this textbook prese
Biofuels could provide up to 27% of total transport fuel worldwide by 2050. The use of transport fuels from biomass, when produced sustainably, can help cut petroleum use and reduce CO2 emissions in the transport sector, especially in heavy transport. Sustainable biofuel technologies, in particula