A brief introduction to biofuels with emphasis on geographical resources, technology and potential. A lecture I give to my students at Pitt-Bradford (PA.,USA) on “biomass fuels”.
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Biodiesel: A Realistic Fuel Alternative for Diesel Engines
Biodiesel: A Realistic Fuel Alternative for Diesel Engines describes the production and characterization of biodiesel. The book also presents current experimental research work in the field, including techniques to reduce biodiesel’s high viscosity. Researchers in renewable energy, as well as fuel engineers, will discover a myriad of new ideas and promising possibilities.
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Biofuels and Future Potential Problems Down the Road
It is quite possible that there will be future potential problems and issues with biofuels down the road. For instance if we are to break our addiction to Middle Eastern foreign oil we will need to produce 15% or more of our fuel by growing it here in the United States Midwest, but to do that we need to produce quite a bit of it. It is possible to grow it, but we need refining capacity and a distribution network to get to market. Additionally people will need to have cars, which run on flex fuels or can run both diesel and ethanol.
After we hit 15% biofuels we will need to expand at 10% per year and that will be tough because there’s only so much water and only so much farmland to make this and not all the cars on the road are capable of using E85 Ethanol, which is 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline. It would destroy your car engine if your car was not made for this. Most automobiles can run 15% ethanol and 85% gasoline without too much problem or damage to the engine.
If our goal is to break America’s addiction to Middle Eastern foreign oil we will need to ramp up the process quicker and figure out a way to get all the ethanol and biofuels to market for both personal automobiles and over the road trucks. We should also look into ways to allow biofuels to be used in aviation in the future. Bio-diesel must be available at truck stops, card key fuel stations, travel centers and large government GSA offices.
We know from the past that blended fuel programs have been very popular in many states but generally this is because of the discounted fuel tax, which keeps the price lower than regular gasoline or diesel fuel. In the future ethanol will have to cost less to produce and deliver to market than gasoline. That might be difficult considering that OPEC will lower the price of their oil in order to keep ethanol away from the American people. All these issues are very important considerations and we must think on this in 2006.
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Cellulosic Biofuels Research
Dr. Praveen Vadlani, K-State Grain Science, talks about the research being conducted in his lab on Cellulosic Biofuels.
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Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy
For anyone who is trying to keep up with the extremely rapid developments in thebiodiesel industry, the second edition of Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy is aninvaluable aid. The breathtaking speed with which biodiesel has gained acceptance in themarketplace in the past few years has been exceeded only by the proliferation of biodieselproduction facilities around the United States and the world—only to confront newsocial and environmental challenges and criticisms.The international survey of the biodiesel industry has been expanded from 40 to morethan 80 countries, reflecting the spectacular growth of the industry around the world. Thissection also tracks the dramatic shifts in the fortunes of the industry that have taken placein some of these nations. The detailed chapters that cover the industry in the UnitedStates have also been substantially rewritten to keep abreast of its many new developmentsand explosive domestic growth. An expanded section on small-scale, localbiodiesel production has been added to better represent this small but growing part of theindustry. Another new section has been added to more fully explore the increasingly controversialissues of deforestation and food versus fuel, as well as GMO crops. The secondedition concludes with updated views on where the industry is headed in the years tocome from some of its key players.For anyone who is trying to keep up with the extremely rapid developments in thebiodiesel industry, the second edition of Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy is aninvaluable aid. The breathtaking speed with which biodiesel has gained acceptance in themarketplace in the past few years has been exceeded only by the proliferation of biodieselproduction facilities around the United States and the world—only to confront newsocial and environmental challenges and criticisms.The international survey of the biodiesel industry has been expanded from 40 to morethan 80 countries, reflecting the spectacular growth of the industry around the world. Thissection also tracks the dramatic shifts in the fortunes of the industry that have taken placein some of these nations. The detailed chapters that cover the industry in the UnitedStates have also been substantially rewritten to keep abreast of its many new developmentsand explosive domestic growth. An expanded section on small-scale, localbiodiesel production has been added to better represent this small but growing part of theindustry. Another new section has been added to more fully explore the increasingly controversialissues of deforestation and food versus fuel, as well as GMO crops. The secondedition concludes with updated views on where the industry is headed in the years tocome from some of its key players.
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