Alternative energy sources for non-highway transportation: executive summary

Technical Report · Sun Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5070083· OSTI ID:5070083

A planning study was made for DOE on alternate fuels for non-highway transportation (aircraft, rail, marine, and pipeline). The study provides DOE with a recommendation of what alternate fuels may be of interest to non-highway transportation users from now through 2025 and recommends R and D needed to allow non-petroleum derived fuels to be used in non-highway transportation. In the near term (present-1985), there is unlikely to be any major change in the fuels used in any of the four modes of transportation except that the average quality of the marine fuel is likely to get worse. In the mid-term period (1985-2000), there will be a transition to non-petroleum fuels, based primarily on shale oil derived liquids assuming a shale oil industry is started during this time.

• Research Organization: Exxon Research and Engineering Co., Linden, NJ (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-77CS55438
• OSTI ID: 5070083
• Report Number(s): DOE/CS/05438-T1(Vol.1)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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DIESEL ENGINES
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ELECTRIC MOTORS
ENERGY
ENERGY SOURCES
ENGINES
EVALUATION
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HEAT ENGINES
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