Ethanol fuelling -- FUTURE FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Dr.Charu Khosla
Asstt.Professor, Department of Applied
> Sciences, Swami Vivekanand Institute of Engineering and Technology,
> Banur, Chandigarh, Punjab.
> Keywords: biofuel, ethanol, life-cycle assessment (LCA),
sustainable
> agriculture.
ABSTRACT
With concerns over carbon emissions, there is considerable pressure
to
> increase use of bio-fuels across nation, and a recent directive
states
> that by 2010 at least 5.75% of road transport fuel should be of bio
> origin. One of todayfs most important
environmental issues is the
>
pollution caused by traffic and transport.Moreover, environmental and
> ecological untenability of the fossil fuels, ever rising petroleum
> import bills telling hard on our foreign exchange reserves, along
with other socio-economic imperatives like rural employment, rural poverty
> etc, make it obligatory for us to search for greener solutions to our
> growing energy demands. The substitution of conventional
fuels > (gasoline, diesel) by
biofuels is considered to be a potential way to
> reduce pollution and support sustainable agriculture. The production
> of biofuels, however, might cause pollution. Potential of
gasohol in
> the Indian context, and possibility of obtaining alcohol from agro
> wastes for gasohol production and gLife-cycle assessmenth- the
> scientific evaluation method to investigate the net environmental
> impacts of biofuels HAS BEEN discussed.
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