Bioalcohols: Bioethanol, Bioethanol Producers, Cellulosic Ethanol Producers, Ethanol Fuel, Ethanol Fuel Crops, Ethanol Fuel in Brazil - Softcover

Chapters: Bioethanol, Bioethanol Producers, Cellulosic Ethanol Producers, Ethanol Fuel, Ethanol Fuel Crops, Ethanol Fuel in Brazil, Ethanol Fuel in the United States, Common Ethanol Fuel Mixtures, History of Ethanol Fuel in Brazil, Ethanol Induced Non-Lamellar Phases in Phospholipids, E85 in Standard Engines, Alcohol Fuel, Cellulosic Ethanol Commercialization, Corn Ethanol, Butanol Fuel, E85 in the United States, Methanol Fuel, Ethanol Fuel Energy Balance, Biofuel in Sweden, Jerusalem Artichoke, Panda Energy International, Clonostachys Rosea F. Rosea, Biofuel in Australia, Verasun Energy, Blue Flint Ethanol, Mascoma Corporation, Algenol, Ethanol Effect, Ntr Plc, Ethanol Fuel in Hawaii, Sorghum Bicolor, Bioethanol for Sustainable Transport, Forbes Energy, Verenium Corporation, E-Fuel Microfueler, Coskata, Inc., Dupont Danisco, Biofields, Poet Llc, Bluefire Ethanol, Zymomonas Mobilis, Gulf Coast Energy, Ethanol Fuel in the Philippines, Treethanol, Aventine Renewable Energy, Renova Energy, Jigawa Ethanol Programme, Industrial Ethanol, Hemp Car. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 278. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gasoline on the left, alcohol on the right at a filling station in Brazil Although fossil fuels have become the dominant energy resource for the modern world, alcohol has been used as a fuel throughout history. The first four aliphatic alcohols (methanol , ethanol , propanol , and butanol ) are of interest as fuels because they can be synthesized biologically, and they have characteristics which allow them to be used in current engines. One advantage shared by all four alcohols is octane rating . Biobutanol has the advantage that its energy density is closer to gasoline than the other alcohols (while still retaining over 25 % higher octane rating) - however, these advantages are outweighed by disadvantages (c...