Third international symposium on alcohol fuels technology

Conference · Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5287133

At the opening of the Symposium, Dr. Sharrah, Senior Vice President of Continental Oil Company, addressed the attendees, and his remarks are included in this volume. The Symposium was concluded by workshops which addressed specific topics. The topical titles are as follows: alcohol uses; production; environment and safety; and socio-economic. The workshops reflected a growing confidence among the attendees that the alcohols from coal, remote natural gas and biomass do offer alternatives to petroleum fuels. Further, they may, in the long run, prove to be equal or superior to the petroleum fuels when the aspects of performance, environment, health and safety are combined with the renewable aspect of the biomass derived alcohols. Although considerable activity in the production and use of alcohols is now appearing in many parts of the world, the absence of strong, broad scale assessment and support for these fuels by the United States Federal Government was a noted point of concern by the attendees. The environmental consequence of using alcohols continues to be more benign in general than the petroleum based fuels. The exception is the family of aldehydes. Although the aldehydes are easily suppressed by catalysts, it is important to understand their production in the combustion process. Progress is being made in this regard. Of course, the goal is to burn the alcohols so cleanly that catalytic equipment can be eliminated. Separate abstracts are prepared for the Energy Data Base for individual presentations.

• Research Organization: Department of Energy, Washington, DC (USA). Office of Transportation Programs
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: FG03-79CS50015
• OSTI ID: 5287133
• Report Number(s): CONF-790520-
• Resource Relation: Conference: 3. international symposium on alcohol fuels technology, Asilomar, CA, USA, 28 May 1979
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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09 BIOMASS FUELS
29 ENERGY PLANNING
POLICY AND ECONOMY
33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
ALCOHOL FUELS
MEETINGS
BIOMASS
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
LEADING ABSTRACT
PRODUCTION
SAFETY
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
ABSTRACTS
DOCUMENT TYPES
ENERGY SOURCES
FUELS
INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
SYNTHETIC FUELS
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