Environmental issues of synthetic transportation fuels from coal

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Increased automobile fuel efficiency and synthetic fuels : alternatives for reducing oil imports. Background paper #3
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Coal liquefaction
  • Coal liquefaction plants
  • Coal industry
  • Synthetic fuels
  • Environmental impact analysis
  • Research reports
  • Coal liquefaction processes
  • Large-scale commercialization
  • Synfuels
  • Technology comparisons
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  PB83-161919
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1403003
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Princeton University
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT ; NTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-Alternative Fuels ; NTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-Environment Impacts
• Abstract:
  This report, Background paper #3, contains papers written for Office of Technology Assessment to assist in preparation of the report, Increased Automobile Fuel Efficiency and Synthetic Fuels: Alternatives for Reducing Oil Imports. Environmental impacts from large-scale commercialization of coal liquefaction are important to government, industry, the public, and a variety of interest groups. This report reviews environmental issues associated with coal liquefaction processes by addressing the following topics: 1) A comparison of the environmental differences among technologies; 2) A comparison of the impacts among different coal regions; 3) A description of the uncertainty of synfuels data and environmental effects; and 4) An identification of problems aggravated by accelerated development schedules.
• Format:
  PDF
• Alternate URL:
  http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk3/1982/8208/8208.PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12693/dot_12693_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.65 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4aea303f40a0b0c0bfab86596ab9cc4c8f6d3448e7e4319e2583dcc06e21e6a7