Transition to Hydrogen

Pathways toward Clean Transportation

Alexander Wokaun, Erik Wilhelm

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9780521192880
• eBook ISBN:
  9781139142601
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Environmental Law
• Index: Law

This book is a comprehensive and objective guide to understanding hydrogen as a transportation fuel. The effects that pursuing different vehicle technology development paths will have on the economy, the environment, public safety and human health are presented with implications for policy makers, industrial stakeholders and researchers alike. Using hydrogen as a fuel offers a possible solution to satisfying global mobility needs, including sustainability of supply and the potential reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. This book focuses on research issues that are at the intersection of hydrogen and transportation, since the study of vehicles and energy-carriers is inseparable. It concentrates on light duty vehicles (cars and light trucks), set in the context of other competing technologies, the larger energy sector and the overall economy. The book is invaluable for researchers and policy makers in transportation policy, energy economics, systems dynamics, vehicle powertrain modeling and simulation, environmental science and environmental engineering.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Foreword: on the transition to hydrogen
• Preface
• Executive summary
• Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Life cycle assessment of hydrogen production
• 3 Technical characterisation and multi-criteriaanalysis of light-duty vehicles
• 4 Hydrogen emissions to the atmosphere from industry and transportation
• 5 Regional fleet simulation
• 6 Long-term scenarios of the global energy and transport system
• 7 Integrated assessment of hydrogen in transportation
• Appendix A Summary of fundamental assumptions
• Appendix B Selected input assumptions, technology descriptions, and heuristics
• Appendix C Characteristics of the present andfuture vehicle designs
• Appendix D Survey questionnaire and aggregated responses
• Appendix E Assumptions and inputs drivingfleet dynamics simulation
• References
• Index