This research presents the first comprehensive model for social assessment of alternative fuel vehicles, covering hybrid-electric, battery-electric, and fuel-cell based on their technological, financial, infrastructure aspects. The is adaptable to any country does not require engagement methods, thus producing more objective results. Indicators are assessed case-by-case receive a score from zer...

The expansion of the research on nanoscale particles demonstrates several advantages in terms stability and an increased surface area to volume ratio compared micron-sized particles. Based this, present work explores addition aluminum hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), alternative jet fuel. To evaluate influence particle sizes, nano micron (40 nm 5 ?m) a concentration 0.5 wt.% were stably suspen...

The depletion of world petroleum reserves and the increased environmental concerns have stimulated the search for alternative sources for petroleum-based fuel, including diesel fuels. Because of the closer properties, biodiesel fuel from non-edible oil is considered as the best candidate for diesel fuel substitute in diesel engines. With increasing demand on the use of fossil fuels, stronger th...

A well-known challenge in computable general equilibrium (CGE) models is to maintain correspondence between the forecasted economic and physical quantities over time. Maintaining such a correspondence is necessary to understand how economic forecasts reflect, and are constrained by, relationships within the underlying physical system. This work develops a method for projecting global demand for...

Huge efforts have been carried out in recent years in order to develop an alternative fuel from renewable resources, such as biodiesel fuel. Therefore, the use of cooking oil as raw material is a very interesting alternative for the production of biodiesel. In this work, waste frying oil was used as raw material for enzymatic biodiesel production. Moreover, this study analyzes the influence of ...

2014 This paper looks specifically at three alternative sources for generating power in remote regions of the world. These include diesel electric, photovoltaic and solar thermal electric devices. Fuel cost, and more specifically, transportation costs of that fuel, dramatically change which device will be most cost effective over a ten year period under specific conditions. In areas where fuel ...

The international economy, in the beginning of the 20th century, is characterized by uncertainty about the supply and the price of oil. Together with the fast decrease of electrical propulsion component prices, it becomes more and more cost effective to develop vehicles with alternative powertrains. This paper focuses on two questions: Are alternative powertrains especially cost effective for s...

--The global fuel crisis in the recent times has generated awareness amongst many countries of their vulnerability to oil embargoes and shortages. Considerable attention has been focused on the development of alternative fuel sources. The Motor vehicle population has also increased tremendously over the last decade in India. Environmental degradation is another outcome of growth in motor vehicl...