Open AccessRenewable Non-GHG Fuels for U.S. Transportation
Author(s) -
Rama Subba Reddy Gorla,
Rashid Salako,
Robert Hatszegi
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of modern mechanical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2409-9848
DOI - 10.31875/2409-9848.2018.05.7
Subject(s) - renewable fuels , renewable energy , greenhouse gas , biofuel , waste management , environmental science , fossil fuel , petroleum , biomass (ecology) , natural resource economics , natural gas , engineering , economics , chemistry , ecology , electrical engineering , organic chemistry , biology
The U.S. non-renewable crude oil reserve is diminishing at the rate of billion barrels per year and the climate change has been a growing concern over the past decade. Both challenges can be solved by using renewable non-greenhouse gas (GHG) alternative fuels that will secure cleaner fuel for the transportation industry and provide benefits to the environment. Renewable fuels for the U.S. transportation are biofuels (ethanol and biodiesel) and their secondary sources (hydrogen and electricity) derived from biomass energy source. The objective of this article is to demonstrate the pathway for replacing the U.S. transportation non-renewable fuels (oil and petroleum, hydrocarbon gas liquids, natural gas) with renewable fuels. The goal of this article is to systematically phase-out all greenhouse gas causing U.S. transportation fuels with clean and most efficient hydrogen-based renewable fuels by 2050, the year predicted for the U.S. crude oil depletion.