Overview
- Provides a science-based view of current biofuels for road transport, and their future
- Topic is approached from a ‘seed-to-wheel’ perspective covering the full life cycle of the biofuel
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
“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.
Reviews
This book addresses critical issues related to a biofuel-driven transportation network. Reijnders (biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics, Univ. of Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Huijbregts (environmental science, Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, Netherlands) have done a thorough job explaining the varieties of biofuels (e.g., ethanol, lipid-based, microalgae), including their characteristics and production... This well-researched work, with an extensive bibliography, will be of interest to all levels of readers and should be on every fuel professional's bookshelf... Highly recommended.
Choice (August 2009) (Reviewer: J. Tavakoli, Lafayette College)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biofuels for Road Transport
Book Subtitle: A Seed to Wheel Perspective
Authors: Lucas Reijnders, Mark Huijbregts
Series Title: Green Energy and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-138-5
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84882-137-8Published: 12 January 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-84996-823-2Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84882-138-5Published: 19 December 2008
Series ISSN: 1865-3529
Series E-ISSN: 1865-3537
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 170
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Automotive Engineering, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Renewable and Green Energy