Fuels, Volume 3, Issue 2

After years of decline, coal consumption has risen significantly in the last year (2021), driven mainly by the ever-increasing demand in fast-growing Asian countries and fostered by rising gas prices in Europe and the United States. Coal is both the...

The application of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is presented for the direct elemental analysis of hydrocarbon-rich solids. In recent years, LIBS has become a powerful tool for obtaining elemental information and mapping analysis of dif...

Cement production is responsible for about eight percent of global CO₂ emissions. A potential use for CO₂ is the production of synthetic fuels through power-to-X (PtX) processes. For this purpose, a potential analysis is performed in which the possib...

This study reports the hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of microalgae Spirulina platenesis in the presence of alcohol or formic acid co-solvents. HTL runs are performed in a 1.8-L batch reactor at 300 °C using an alcohol (methanol and ethanol) or...

A large database of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logging data from clastic rocks of offshore oil and gas fields of Western Australia was used to assess the performance of multi regression analysis (MRA) to calculate NMR log outputs from conventio...

Current research and development to lower the production cost of biodiesel by utilizing feedstock derived from waste motivates the quest for developing catalysts with high performance in transesterification. This study investigates the performance of...

This work covers the impact of varying injector nozzle hole numbers (INHNs) and fuel injection pressures (IPs) on fuel atomization, performance, and exhaust emission characteristics of a diesel engine. The primary goal of this research was to improve...

This study presents design considerations and an evaluation of a full-scale process chain for methanol and advanced drop-in fuel production derived from lignite/solid recovered fuel (SRF) feedstock. The plant concept consists of a high-temperature Wi...

Several cellulose-hydrolysis enzymes are required for eco-friendly utilization of cellulose as renewable biomass, and it would therefore be beneficial if fermenting microbes can provide such enzymes without genetic engineering. Thermotolerant and mul...

Research Octane Number (RON) is one of the primary indicators for the determination of the resistance of gasoline fuels to autoignition. This parameter is usually determined with a test procedure involving a standardized engine that requires expensiv...

Bioethanol has great potential to reduce emissions from transportation while improving energy security and developing the economy. Bioethanol has a higher octane-number and a higher enthalpy of vaporisation than gasoline (resulting in charge cooling)...

The expansion of the research on nanoscale particles demonstrates several advantages in terms of stability and an increased surface area to volume ratio compared to micron-sized particles. Based on this, the present work explores the addition of alum...