Sustainable fuels: Lower alcohols perspective

Alcohols and Other Oxygenates as Motor Fuels

Alcohols and other low molecular weight oxygenates are known to be potentially valuable gasoline substitutes. While these are generally of interest in relation to the long-term need to secure future motor fuel supplies, there is a more urgent need for substitutes which will improve the octane rating of unleaded fuels. For environmental reasons, oxygenates including alcohols may be preferred to ...

Solar to fuels conversion technologies: a perspective

To meet increasing energy needs, while limiting greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades, power capacity on a large scale will need to be provided from renewable sources, with solar expected to play a central role. While the focus to date has been on electricity generation via photovoltaic (PV) cells, electricity production currently accounts for only about one-third of total primary en...

Sustainable Mobility, Future Fuels, and the Periodic Table

Providing sustainable mobility is a major challenge that will require new vehicle and fuel technologies. Alternative and future fuels are the subject of considerable research and public interest. A simple approach is presented that can be used in science education lectures at the high school or undergraduate level to provide students with an understanding of the elemental composition of future ...

Engineering a Sustainable and Economically Active Future without Fossil Fuels

The need for mankind to make the transition from a global civilisation powered by fossil fuels, to one powered by non-polluting sources of energy, is at last beginning to impinge on public awareness, now that the science of climate change is becoming established. Unfortunately, obfuscation and procrastination still exists, impeding progress to sustainability as vested interests are increasingly...

Millisecond reforming of solid biomass for sustainable fuels.