Product Description: With existing petroleum oil and natural gas reserves enough for only several more decades, there is an imminent need for alternative energy sources. This critical situation has incited greater improvements in automotive technology and the increased use of nonconventional fuels...read more

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Discusses the American dependence on imported fossil fuel and proposes a solution in the form of biodiesel engines. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Readers will receive accurate and descriptive information on basic fuel characteristics. Nontechnical text serves as a reference guide for industry veterans and teaching tool for newcomers to the industry.

Product Description: This companion volume to "Alternative Engines for Road Vehicles", discusses the future prospects for conventional and alternative fuels for road vehicle applications. The implications of the energy and emissions from the whole fuel cycle (from production to distribution and final usage) are considered, as are vehicular fuel consumption and exhaust emission characteristics...read more