Biofuels: Production, Application and Development (Cabi)

✍ Scribed by Alan Scragg

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Edition: First
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Providing the world's growing population with its increasing demands for energy is a major challenge for science, business and society alike. Energy can be generated from many sources, but not all sources are suitable for every application. Much of today's technology has been built on solid, liquid and gaseous fuels derived from fossil sources. However, the supply of these is finite and their combustion produces carbon dioxide, one of the gases responsible for global warming. Therefore, alternative sources of energy are required which are renewable, sustainable and carbon neutral.This textbook explores the production of biofuels as alternatives to fossil fuels, focusing on the technological issues that need to be addressed for any new fuel source. Each type of biofuel currently in production is considered in detail, covering the benefits and problems with production and use and the potential for biological material to provide sufficient energy for the world's population - the principles on which future fuel development are based.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 7
Acronyms, Abbreviations and Units......Page 9
1 Energy and Fossil Fuel Use......Page 14
2 Consequences of Burning Fossil Fuel......Page 30
3 Mitigation of Global Warming......Page 47
4 Biological Solid Fuels......Page 75
5 Gaseous Biofuels......Page 94
6 Liquid Biofuels to Replace Petrol......Page 118
7 Liquid Biofuels to Replace Diesel......Page 149
8 The Benefits and Deficiencies of Biofuels......Page 180
References......Page 226
B......Page 243
C......Page 244
F......Page 245
H......Page 246
M......Page 247
R......Page 248
U......Page 249
Z......Page 250