Advances in Biofuels - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1489986340 ISBN 13: 9781489986344

Verlag: Springer, 2015

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This book examines the current technology used for extracting fuel from biomass for a variety of plant types. It explores shortcomings of each and details improved techniques, which would be cheaper, more efficient, and produce less waste.

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Biofuels will play a key role in the 21st century as the world faces two critical problems; volatile fuel prices and global climatic changes. Both of these are linked to the overdependence on the fossil fuels: petroleum, natural gas, and coal. Transportation is almost totally dependent on petroleum based fuels such as gasoline, diesel fuel, liquefied petroleum gas, and on natural gas. Despite a significant amount of research into biofuels, the field has not been able to replace fossil fuels. Recent advances will change this scenario. Extracting fuel from biomass has been very expensive (both monetarily and in land usage), time consuming, unusable byproducts, etc. Technology to obtain liquid fuel from non-fossil sources must be improved to be faster, more efficient and more cost-effective. This book will cover the current technology used for a variety of plant types and explore shortcomings with each.

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• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1489986340
• ISBN 13: 9781489986344
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Ravindra Pogaku, Sarbatly Rosalam Hj.