Petroleum-based fuels are well-established products that have
served industry and consumers for more than one hundred years.
However petroleum, once considered inexhaustible, is now being
depleted at a rapid rate. As the amount of available petroleum
decreases, the need for alternative technologies to produce liquid
fuels that could potentially help prolong the liquid fuels culture
and mitigate the forthcoming effects of the shortage of
transportation fuels is being sought. The dynamics are now coming
into place for the establishment of a synthetic fuels industry; the
processes for recovery of raw materials and processing options have
to change to increase the efficiency of oil production and it is up
to various levels of government not only to promote the
establishment of such an industry but to recognise the need for
available and variable technology. This timely handbook is written
to assist the reader in understanding the options that available
for the production of synthetic fuel from biological sources. Each
chapter contains tables of the chemical and physical properties of
the fuels and fuel sources. It is essential that the properties of
such materials be presented in order to assist the researcher to
understand the nature of the feedstocks as well as the nature of
the products. If a product cannot be employed for its hope-for-use,
it is not a desirable product and must be changed accordingly. Such
plans can only be made when the properties of the original product
are understood. The fuels considered include conventional and
unconventional fuel sources; the production and properties of fuels
from biomass, crops, wood, domestic and industrial waste and
landfill gas.
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