Potential and Challenges of Low Carbon Fuels for Sustainable Transport (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Agarwal, Avinash Kumar; Valera, Hardikk

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on low carbon fuels a preferable class of fuels for Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs) highlighting the effect of low carbon fuels on tailpipe emissions. This book aims to strengthen the knowledge base dealing with low carbon fuels as a sustainable transport fuel. The volume includes recent results and are focused on current trends of automotive sector. This book will be of interest to those in academia and industry involved in fuels, IC engines, engine instrumentation, and environmental research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
• Seitenzahl: 345
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789811684142
• Artikelnr.: 63226201

Autorenporträt

Prof. Avinash Kumar Agarwal joined IIT Kanpur in 2001. He worked at the Engine Research Center, UW@Madison, the USA as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (1999 - 2001). His interests are IC engines, combustion, alternate and conventional fuels, lubricating oil tribology, optical diagnostics, laser ignition, HCCI, emissions, and particulate control, 1D and 3D Simulations of engine processes, and large-bore engines. Prof. Agarwal has published 435+ peer-reviewed international journal and conference papers, 70 edited books, 92 books chapters, and 12200+ Scopus and 19000+ Google Scholar citations. He is the associate principal editor of FUEL. He has edited "Handbook of Combustion" (5 Volumes; 3168 pages), published by Wiley VCH, Germany. Prof. Agarwal is a Fellow of SAE (2012), Fellow of ASME (2013), Fellow of ISEES (2015), Fellow of INAE (2015), Fellow of NASI (2018), Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (2018), and a Fellow of American Association of Advancement in Science (2020). He is the recipient of several prestigious awards such as Clarivate Analytics India Citation Award-2017 in Engineering and Technology, NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award-2012; INAE Silver Jubilee Young Engineer Award-2012; Dr. C. V. Raman Young Teachers Award: 2011; SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award -2008; INSA Young Scientist Award-2007; UICT Young Scientist Award-2007; INAE Young Engineer Award-2005. Prof. Agarwal received Prestigious CSIR Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award-2016 in Engineering Sciences. Prof. Agarwal is conferred upon Sir J C Bose National Fellowship (2019) by SERB for his outstanding contributions. Prof. Agarwal was a highly cited researcher (2018) and was in the top ten HCR from India among 4000 HCR researchers globally in 22 fields of inquiry. Mr. Hardikk Valera is pursuing his Ph.D. from Engine Research Laboratory (ERL), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. He has completed his M.Tech. and B.Tech. from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jalandhar, India, and Ganpat University, respectively. His research interests include methanol fuelled SI engines, methanol fuelled CI engines, optical diagnostics, fuel spray characterization and emission control from engines.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction of Potential and Challenges of Low Carbon Fuels for Sustainable Transport.- Some of the Bio-fuels for Internal Combustion Engines: Alcohols and Biodiesel.- Production of Bioethanol from Microalgal Feedstock: A Circular Biorefinery Approach.- Fuel Delivery System for Alternative Fuel Engines - A Review.- Alcohols as Alternative Fuels for Transport.- Advances in the Use of Ethers and Alcohols as Additives for Improving Biofuel Properties for SI Engines.- Influence of Oxygenated Fuel and Additives in Biofuel Run Compression Ignition Engine.- Future Sustainable Transport Fuels for Indian Heavy-duty Vehicles.- Potential and Challenges of using Biodiesel in a Compression Ignition Engine.- Biodiesel and Renewable Diesel as a Drop-in Fuel for Decarbonized Maritime Transportation.