Open AccessINVESTIGATION ON TRANSPORT RELATED BIOGAS UTILIZATION
Author(s) -
Viktória Barbara Kovács,
Ádám Török
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
transport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1648-4142
pISSN - 1648-3480
DOI - 10.3846/transport.2010.10
Subject(s) - usable , renewable energy , biogas , energy demand , environmental science , waste management , combustion , environmental economics , renewable fuels , process engineering , biofuel , engineering , computer science , chemistry , economics , organic chemistry , world wide web , electrical engineering
Due to an increase in demand for energy and the mobility of the human population as well as in order to keep sustainable development, there is a major need to utilize alternative energy sources. The use of biogases as a source of renewable energy could provide an effective and alternative way to fulfil a remarkable part of this demand for energy. As biogases have high inert content, their heating value is low. The energetic utilization of these low heating value renewable gaseous fuels is not fully worked out yet because their combustion characteristics significantly differ from the liquid fuels that are used nowadays in transportation, and in this way, they are not usable or their utilization is limited in devices with conventional equipment. Thus, theoretical and experimental analysis was made to investigate the usability of biogases.