Bio-methanol: Fuel of choice

Journal Article · · Solar Today; (United States)

OSTI ID:5947406

Neill, D R; Yu, C; Ho, T; Tang, D; Lee, M ^[1]

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1. Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu (USA)

The Hawaii Natural Energy Institute (HNEI) is working on four programs related to methanol: Biomass production, hydrogen, biomass conversion and transportation fuel demonstration. The biomass production program started eight years ago when the first Pacific Basin Biomass Workshop set forth a plan of action. Since then, much progress had been made toward implementing this plan. With support from the US Department of Energy (USDOE) through SERI, HNEI has been implementing a biomass production program that includes a resource assessment and computerized mapping of all agricultural lands, various field trials of promising species and research of harvesting and conversion technologies. Five to six percent of Hawaii's land area could yield sufficient feed-stock to replace all of the state's gasoline and diesel fuel from imported oil.

• OSTI ID: 5947406
• Journal Information: Solar Today; (United States), Journal Name: Solar Today; (United States) Vol. 5:6; ISSN SOTOE
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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