Environmental quality and the shift to alternative fuels: Progress and interim findings of a Department of Energy study of transition in vehicular power systems
The goal of the last component, environmental consideration, is to identify potential environmental, health, and safety constraints and effects that could jeopardize a smooth transition or might render some aspects of transition inadvisable. These effects are not necessarily better'' or worse,'' just different. Specific tasks include (a) developing a quantitative estimate of the relative air emissions due to domestic fuel production and vehicular operation of each fuel penetration scenario'' identified by the fuel distribution and vehicle supply component, (b) estimating air quality and waste disposal effects of these scenarios, and (c) defining public and occupational safety and health issues related to domestic fuel and power system production, fuel handling, and vehicular operation. No attempt to quantify or assign a value to net environmental benefits is undertaken as part of the DOE analysis. This report focuses on this third study component, discussing the environmental, health and safety (EH S) transition issues that have been identified as of July 1, 1989 and describing methodologies to be applied in forthcoming quantitative analyses. As appropriate, findings to date from other components of the study will be cited. The following section, which presents EH S concerns for each of the three prime candidate alternative fuels, is drawn largely from a forthcoming study progress report.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE/EH
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 5568931
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-890814-9; ON: DE90002178
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American Institute of Chemical Engineer's summer national meeting, Philadelphia, PA (USA), 20-23 Aug 1989
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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