Fuels to Drive Our Future
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Fuels to Drive Our Future

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  1. 236 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fuels to Drive Our Future

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About this book

The American love affair with the automobile is powered by gasoline and diesel fuel, both produced from petroleum. But experts are turning more of their attention to alternative sources of liquid transportation fuels, as concerns mount about U.S. dependence on foreign oil, falling domestic oil production, and the environment.This book explores the potential for producing liquid transportation fuels by enhanced oil recovery from existing reservoirs, and processing resources such as coal, oil shale, tar sands, natural gas, and other promising approaches.Fuels to Drive Our Future draws together relevant geological, technical, economic, and environmental factors and recommends specific directions for U.S. research and development efforts on alternative fuel sources.Of special interest is the book's benchmark cost analysis comparing several major alternative fuel production processes.This volume will be of special interest to executives and engineers in the automotive and fuel industries, policymakers, environmental and alternative fuel specialists, energy economists, and researchers.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
1990
eBook ISBN
9780309543194
Edition
0
Topic
Physical Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Fuels to Drive Our Future
  2. Copyright
  3. Preface
  4. Contents
  5. Executive Summary
  6. 1 Introduction
  7. 2 Conventional Petroleum, Enhanced Oil Recovery, and Natural Gas
  8. 3 Production Costs for Alternative Liquid Fuels Sources
  9. 4 Conversion Technologies and R&D Opportunities
  10. 5 Environmental Impacts of Alternative Fuels
  11. 6 Major Conclusions and Recommendations for R&D on Liquid Transportation Fuels
  12. Appendixes
  13. Glossary
  14. References and Bibliography
  15. Index