Abstract
Study Summary
This study is a comprehensive review of the current and future global role of
ethanol as a vehicular fuel and fuel additive through 2012. Within the report
ethanol use in land, air, sea and other types of transportations are examined
along with the key drivers encouraging ethanol use and the challenges the
ethanol industry and related industries will face carving out a wider role in
the transportation market. Production methods, environmental benefits and
concerns, distribution challenges and competing fuel, fuel additives and
alternative energy sources are assessed. Figures and forecasts include annual
ethanol feedstock distribution, ethanol fuel use and production, DME fuel
production, butanol usage, oil and oil shale production, heavy oil production,
synfuel production and sugar cane production. The role of hydrogen internal
combustion engines is also outlined with forecasts through 2016.
Topics
- Factors driving ethanol use as a fuel and fuel additive
- Ethanol use in vehicular markets (land, air and sea)
- Peak oil
- Competing energy solutions (hydrogen, synfuel, diesel, butanol, etc.)
- Ethanol feedstocks
- Ethanol production processes
- Distribution and transportation of ethanol
- Environmental arguments for and against use of ethanol
- Unconventional petroleum sources
- Regional case analysis of ethanol use
- Key innovators in the ethanol market
Quantifies
- Ethanol production
- Feedstocks by type
- DME fuel production
- Global oil production
- Global oil discoveries
- Global gasoline production
- Global methanol production
- Use of hydrogen in automotive transportation
- Global market for butanol fuel
- Global cane sugar production
- Global heavy oil production
- Consumption of pure hydrogen within the methanol industry
- Global oil shale production
- Global and US synfuel production
- Global vehicle production
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