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Book SynopsisTransportation currently takes up around a third of overall energy usage, of which the majority is petroleum-based gasoline. Petroleum is both a finite resource and a big contributor to the carbon emissions that are causing climate change. To continue to benefit from transportation whilst mitigating climate change it is essential to find alternatives to petroleum-based gasoline. Although a lot of recent developments have focused on electrifying transport the infrastructure for large scale uptake of electric vehicles is still lacking and it may be less practical in some parts of the world than others. Biofuels, therefore, still have a role to play in improving the sustainability of our transportation systems. The term green gasoline refers to biofuels intended to be direct drop-in replacements for petroleum-based gasoline. Such products allow vehicles to run on biofuel without any engine modifications and, being made from biomass, they are both renewable and have a better carbon emission profile than petroleum-based gasoline. Green Gasoline covers a range of new technologies being used to produce these biofuels and compares them to petroleum-based fuels in terms of sustainability. It will be an interesting read for those working in fuel chemistry as well as green chemists and anyone with an interest in transport sustainability.
Table of ContentsOrigin and Historical Perspectives of Green Gasoline;Feedstocks for Green Gasoline;Current Lignocellulosic Biomass Logistics and Challenges;Catalysts for Green Gasoline Processing;Conversion Technologies for Green Gasoline;Recent Advances and Challenges in Biobutanol Production;Conversion of Biomass to Green Gasoline: Feedstocks, Technological Advances, and Commercial Scope;Green Gasoline: Integrated Production Processes, Future Perspectives, and Technoeconomic Feasibility;Characterization of Green Gasoline: Existing Standards;Transportation Biofuels: Green Gasoline, Bioethanol, Biodiesel and Green Diesel – A Comparison;Expediency of Green Gasoline in Internal Combustion Engines;Green Anti-knock Agents for Enhancement of Gasoline Performance;Green Gasoline: A Technoeconomic Analysis;Green Gasoline as a Commercial Liquid Fuel Throughout Asia, Europe, and the USA: A Technical Review;Life Cycle Assessment of Green Gasoline;Economic Analysis and Future Perspective of Green Gasoline
