Biofuels : production, application and development /

• Main Author: Scragg, A. H. 1943- (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
• Subjects: Biomass energy.; Renewable energy sources.; Biomass energy > Environmental aspects.; Renewable energy sources > Environmental aspects.; Processing Equipment and Technology.; Energy.; Meteorology and Climate.; Wastes (General); Bioenergy.; Biofuels.; Climatic change.; Energy sources.; Fuels.; Global warming.; Electronic books.
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This book contains 8 chapters presenting an outline of the problems associated with fossil fuel use, and discusses the consequences of burning fossil fuels as well as how the adoption of alternative fuels can mitigate global warming. Other chapters cover biologically produced, solid, gaseous and liq...

Table of Contents:

• Energy and fossil fuel use
• Consequences of burning fossil fuel
• Mitigation of global warming
• Biological solid fuels
• Gaseous biofuels
• Liquid biofuels to replace petrol
• Liquid biofuels to replace diesel
• The benefits and deficiencies of biofuels.