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.
Biofuels for Road Transport: A Seed to Wheel Perspective is a valuable
reference for professional engineers, researchers and postgraduate
students involved in biofuels, renewable energy (including bioenergy)
and the automotive industry.