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  title info:
    title: Biodiesel: Feedstocks, Technologies, Economics and Barriers
    sub title: Assessment of Environmental Impact in Producing and Using Chains
  name:
    name part: Avagyan, Armen B.
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      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Singh, Bhaskar.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Knovel (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (XII, 128 p. 15 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
  abstract: Air pollution policy is closely connected with climate change, public health, energy, transport, trade, and agriculture, and generally speaking, the Earth has been pushed to the brink and the damage is becoming increasingly obvious. The transport sector remains a foremost source of air pollutants - a fact that has stimulated the production of biofuels. This book focuses on the biodiesel industry, and proposes a modification of the entire manufacturing chain that would pave the way for further improvements. Oil derived from oilseed plantations/crops is the most commonly used feedstock for the production of biodiesel. At the same time, the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering and 178 scientists in the Netherlands have determined that some biofuels, such as diesel produced from food crops, have led to more emissions than those produced by fossil fuels. Accordingly, this book re-evaluates the full cycle of biodiesel production in order to help find optimal solutions. It confirms that the production and use of fertilizers for the cultivation of crop feedstocks generate considerably more GHG emissions compared to the mitigation achieved by using biodiesel. To address this fertilization challenge, projecting future biofuel development requires a scenario in which producers shift to an organic agriculture approach that includes the use of microalgae. Among advanced biofuels, algae's advantages as a feedstock include the highest conversion of solar energy, and the ability to absorb CO2 and pollutants; as such, it is the better choice for future fuels. With regard to the question of why algae's benefits have not been capitalized on for biofuel production, our analyses indicate that the sole main barrier to realizing algae's biofuel potential is ineffective international and governmental policies, which create difficulties in reconciling the goals of economic development and environmental protection.
  note: by Armen B. Avagyan, Bhaskar Singh.
  subject:
    topic: Applied ecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Science (General)
  subject:
    topic: Bioengineering
  subject:
    topic: Applied Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Management
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable Development
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Écologie appliquée
  subject:
    topic: Chimie de l'environnement
  subject:
    topic: Environnement
    topic: Gestion
  subject:
    topic: Biotechnologie
  subject:
    topic: Développement durable
  subject:
    topic: environmental control
  subject:
    topic: bioengineering
  subject:
    topic: sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Bioengineering
  subject:
    topic: Applied ecology
  subject:
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  classification: QH541.29
  classification: 577
  identifier: 9811357463
  identifier: 9789811357466
  identifier: 9789811357459
  identifier: 9811357455
  identifier: 9789811357473
  identifier: 9811357471
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: SFB
    record creation date: 190507
    record change date: 20250819165514.2
    record identifier: in00005660685
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng