Developing Technologies For Fossil Fuel

A major source of controversy when it comes to biodiesel and other biofuels such as ethanol is what ingredient are used to make the fuel. When oils from crops are used, a number of problems can arise. For instance, biodiesel and other biofuels are often touted as environmentally friendly since they are typically made from plants, which suck the global warming gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to grow. However, the land may be damaged in order to grow these crops as demand for biofuels grow for example, in Indonesia, biodiesel may be causing deforestation, as native forests are destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. The chemicals from agricultural fertilizers and pesticides may also upset ecosystems.

To solve the rigorous threat to earth from global warming, bio-fuels serve as the most feasible source of energy all over the world. The environmental and economical performance of bio-fuel as compared to fossil fuel was analyzed by full Life Cycle Analyses (LCA) in Spain. The Spanish government CIEMAT, carried out two LCA’s so as to compare ethanol-ethanol mixtures with gasoline, and biodiesel-biodiesel mixtures with fuel oil according to ISO 14040-43 standards, these standards evaluate energy and mass balance for two or more objects. It was concluded that carbon dioxide emission during utilization of bio-fuel are lower than fossil fuel and bio-fuel requires less primary energy to be processed than fossil fuels. Bob Dinneen, President and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association submitted the letter to the editor of The Gazette in which he marked that “On an environmental level, conventional ethanol is reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 34% compared to petroleum, including hypothetical land use change emissions” (qtd. in renewable fuel association). As the raw material for

Bio-fuels are also known as agro fuels. They are a renewable source of energy made from animal and vegetable material and a large portion of municipal solid and industrial waste. Bio-fuels are major sources of fuel from biomass. Biomass is any organic material stored in the tissues of living plants and animals. Plants generate their energy from the solar power using the chlorophyll in the leaves to create tissue from water in the ground and carbon dioxide in the air and animals take their energy from plants either by directly eating plants or by eating other animals that have eaten plants. Even though biofuels are sources of energy obtained from renewable resources, the positive effects to the environment are far outweighed by the negative effects to the environment from the production of these biofuels. Our need for energy is increasing day by day for heating, cooling, cooking, driving, etc. One of the major reasons for the development of bio-fuels is the act that fossil fuel oil reserves are limited. Based on total worldwide oil reserves of 143.1 thousand million tons of oil (end 2001) and a worldwide oil consumption rate of 3510.6 million tons, it is estimated that the oil reserves will probably last until 2044. Also, there has been increasing concerns regarding global emissions of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and nitrous oxides. Biodiesel, which is the most popular form of bio-fuel, is used in any diesel

However, fossil fuels have important roles in safeguarding the agricultural sector by providing the chemicals required for the production of nourishments for excellent crops fertility, and insecticides for killing parasitic animals which reduce food demands. Thus, this improvement can help reduce hunger around the world, as it provided about 60% of the world’s food consumption (Goklany 2013). As shown below, fossil fuels invest several raw materials that is required for the harvesting of food supply (PB&J

The biggest problem the United States faces today when we talk about becoming energy independent is replacing the gas we use to power our vehicles. When we talk about replacing gasoline as the fuel we use to power our vehicles, biomass, hydrogen, and fuel cells are the three most talked about alternatives. Biomass, which is organic material made from plants and animals, contains stored energy from the sun. Biomass in the form of bio fuels can be used to make the same products as those we make from fossil fuels. Its main advantages over fossil fuels are that bio fuels are better for the environment and can be produced right here in the United States. Although some experts complain that bio fuels release carbon

Hence, biofuel is a recent scientific research undertaken in Australia and will be the greatest benefit towards society and the environment. As biofuel can help contribute environmentally through lowering levels of pollution, it also benefits the society by offering economic stimulation as well as

Ethanol is a green renewable energy that produces from lignocellulosic materials. In the process, rice straw and corn straw required the physical pretreatment, chemical pretreatment at 100oC for 2 hours, and consequently with cellulase hydrolysis at pH 4.8, 42oC. Therefore, the concentration of 2 - 4 %(v/v) of HCl and H2SO4 were applied. Moreover, the 4 %(v/v) of HCl solution released the highest amounts of total sugar, glucose, and xylose. The corn straw produced the total sugar at 61.43 g/L while rice straw generated 27.36 g/L. The HCl pretreatment released a higher amount of xylose than glucose, In the corn straws, the HCl pretreatment produced the 14.59 g/L of xylose and 7.46 g/L of glucose whereas, in the rice straw pretreatment, the process

With the todays advancements in machinery and other technological aspects the idea and importance of using biofuels that are both environmentally safe and efficient is important. With todays society being more aware of greenhouse gas emissions and that can make In a series of three weeks the efficiency and environmental safeness of five different biofuels were tested to determine which In the three labs performed of a series of three weeks, the efficiency and environmentally safeness of different biofuels were tested to determine of which would be most suitible if the ideas from above are taken into consideration. By recording the germination of seeds with a certain biofuel the toxicity of each fuel was determined. In lab 7, through

Biodiesel as it name depicts is a substitute for diesel and in its purified form it can be used as a fuel for vehicles. It is made from oilseeds, vegetable oil and sometimes from animal fats. Bioethanol is used instead of petrol; it is very useful now days as the demand for petrol and its price are equally high. Fulfilling that high demand of petrol by biofuel form of bioethanol has raised many questions and it has brought many people on streets because bioethanol is made from cereal based and starch crops. The heavy use of these ingredients has raised the prices of food to an uncontrollable extent. Biogas is a form of substitute for natural gas

A great amount of ethanol fuel is currently produced by starch fermentation. This starch comes from grains such as wheat and maize. Fermentation is produced by a yeast culture. The digestion of starch by yeasts is done in two stages: the starch is initially hydrolyzed in sugars by a chemical or enzymatic

Biotechnology has played a vital role in reducing the green house effect and in producing a cleaner planet. Because of the worldwide economic and environmental concerns regarding the use of petro-chemicals, extensive research has been conducted on residual biomass. Significant progress has been made in the field of lignocellulose biotechnology. Lignocellulosic waste materials have been used in the production of bio-fuels, enzymes, chemicals, the pulp and paper, animal feed and composites (Iqbal, 2013). Moreover, algal biomass has received huge attention in producing biofuels due to their relatively high growth rate, great

Biofuels are an essential commodity when it comes to reducing carbon emissions from transportation. The production of biofuels produced from raw materials will ensure the availability of biofuels to maintain the biofuel industry

Energy shortage problem has emerged as a result of development. Traditional energy sources, petroleum and coal, are estimated to deplete within this century, therefore, as an important substitute, biofuel is intensively studied now. Current technologies to produce biofuel from animal fats and plants are well-developed, however, these production methods rely on a significant land area for plant growth, which will affect the food supplement, leading to food price and safety issues. Many algae have high oil-producing potential and they require minimum land to grow compared with plants. They also showed good productivity and environmental-friendly character, thus, research on algae biofuel production is a hot focus. Arthrospira, Chlorella, Dunaliella, Haematococcus and some other algae species have been showed good potential in biofuel production.

This paper will discuss the three main fossil fuels which are oil, coal, and natural gas. This research shows how the fossil fuels are formed, where they could be found, and explain how they were formed over millions of years. This paper will show the numerous advantages of fossil fuels compared to the disadvantages and how they are hurting the Earth. Fossils fuels are critical to the function of everyday life. The world would be a different if fossil fuels and their uses were not to of use.

Due to energy and environmental concerns, producing fuels from renewable energy sources has seen advancements, especially through collecting biofuels produced from microbes. Many of the biofuels produced from microbes are done so by different pathways in order to generate fatty acid branched-chain esters (FABCEs) and branched fatty acid branched-chain esters (BFABCEs), which are promising isopentenols. These can be produced via multiple pathways, the leucine and valine pathway as well as the fatty acid pathway. Another and main source pathway producing biofuels, which produces isopentyl diphosphate (IPP) and dimethylallyl dipho-sphate (DMAPP), are the 2-methyl-(D)-erythritol-4-phosphate (MEP) and mevalonate-dependent (MVA)