Pace finds synfuels future holds promise, but improvements needed

Journal Article · Mon Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1986 · Pace Synth. Fuels Rep.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5126893

The events of the last few years have been extremely discouraging for the US synthetic fuels industry. At its peak, several hundred commercial synthetic fuels projects were under consideration in the US. This number has now been reduced to a mere handful of projects. Therefore, Pace believes that a review of recent events in the industry and the current status of synthetic fuels is now warranted. Moreover, an analysis and forecast of the future of the industry are needed. For the authors analysis, they limited the scope to oil shale, oil sands, coal gasification, and coal liquefaction. Excluded form their analysis were other methods of producing energy such as enhanced oil recovery, biomass conversion into products such as ethanol, refuse-derived fuels, hydrogen, solar, geothermal, and others.

• OSTI ID: 5126893
• Journal Information: Pace Synth. Fuels Rep.; (United States), Journal Name: Pace Synth. Fuels Rep.; (United States) Vol. 23:3; ISSN PSFRD
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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