Lucas Reijnders, Mark Huijbregts

Biofuels for Road Transport

A Seed to Wheel Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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.

Produktdetails

• Green Energy and Technology
• Verlag: Springer / Springer London / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-84996-823-2
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9781849968232
• ISBN-10: 1849968233
• Artikelnr.: 32788984

Inhaltsangabe

Transport Biofuels: Their Characteristics, Production and Costs.- Energy Balance: Cumulative Fossil Fuel Demand and Solar Energy Conversion Efficiency of Transport Biofuels.- Non-energy Natural Resource Demand.- Climate Effects and Non-greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with Transport Biofuel Life Cycles.- The Impact of Expanded Biofuel Production on Living Nature.- Frequently Asked Questions in the Transport Biofuel Debate.

Rezensionen

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)

Biofuels for Road Transport: A Seed to Wheel Perspective is a fascinating introduction to the complexity of interactions between the ecological and economic systems associated with the extraction of biomass from nature. The issues addressed are relevant far beyond biofuels for understanding the relationship we humans have with the rest of living nature.

Edgar Hertwich, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Journal of Industrial Ecology.