Biofuels: towards a greener and secure energy future
Book Details
Coupled with increasing oil prices, increasing awareness of the global impacts of greenhouse gases has led to concerns over the continued consumption of fossil fuels worldwide.
Consequently, many developed and developing countries have considered the possibility of large-scale production and sue of biofuels, such as bio-ethanol and bio-diesel, as alternatives to hydrocarbon fuels.
Biofuels: towards a greener and secure energy future provides an assessment of current practices and knowledge on the production, conversion, and use of biofuels, and is the result of experiences provided by a diverse group of distinguished persons who have been dealing with this subject for some time now. The book is intended to be a ready reckoner for individuals, farmers, policy-makers, researchers, automobile manufacturers, as well as agencies and institutions interested in taking forward the energy security agenda in general and the promotion of biofuels in particular.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Vinod Khosla, Partner,Khosla Ventures
Introduction
R K Pachauri
SECTION 1: Policy issues in biofuels
Biofuels in the Indian perspective
Leena Srivastava
The Indian biofuels programme: the National Mission on Bio-diesel
R Mandal and Parveen Mithra
Biofuels: helping India reduce oil dependence
K S Sethi
SECTION 2: Bio-ethanol production
Bio-ethanol: lessons from the Brazilian experience
Oswalldo Lucon
International experiences in biofuels
Prabha Dhavala
Alternative feedstock for bio-ethanol production in India
Linoj Kumar NV and Sameer Maithel
SECTION 3: Bio-diesel from jatropha
Bio-diesel from jatropha: the road map
H M Behl
Raising large-scale jatropha plantation in India:present status and future prospects
Padam Prakash Bhojvaid
Jatropha for wasteland development: TERI's
mycorrhiza technology
Alok Adholeya and Reena Singh
Recent trends in bio-diesel production
A K Gupta
Quality considerations in Jatropha curcas
Nutan Kaushik
Research issues in development of bio-diesel engines
L M Das and venu Madhav
Long-run marginal-cost-based economic evaluation of bio-diesel production from jatropha
Anandajit Goswami
Environmental impacts of bio-diesel
Shubha Pandey and T S Panwar
Clean development mechanism potential of bio-diesel projects
Vivek Kumar and Prabha Dhaval
SECTION 4: Biofuel experiences in the states of India
Experiences of the Chhatisgarh Biofuel Development Authority
S K Shukla
Jatropha for sustainable employment, energy security and for checking soil erosion
A K Lohia
Biofuels: the Andhra Pradesh experience
M Prasad
Directory of websites on biofuels
Index
Keywords
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