Title: Chemistry and technology of synthetic fuels
Abstract: Today about 90% of our energy comes from oil, gas and coal, with almost half from oil alone. We cannot effect a major worldwide shift from the direct and indirect use of fossil fuels until after the year 2000. The timely development of a synthetic fuels industry in the US and other industrial nations is important to an orderly transition from reliance principally on oil and gas to use of a more diversified mix of energy sources. A synthetic fuels industry could start contributing to the domestic energy supply in the US by the end of the 1980s, since several processes for making synthetic fuels are in advanced stages of development. The conversion of coal to liquids and gases, the utilization of oil from shale, and the conversion of heavy crude oils and heavy petroleum residual to clean fuels constitute three of the more promising routes to synthetic fuels. The contribution of a synthetic fuels industry to the total energy supply of the US in the year 2000 is expected to be about 9% - equivalent to about 4.5 million barrels of oil per day. These synthetic fuels will derive primarily from conversion of coal and separation of oil frommore » shale. 7 figures, 2 tables. (DP)« less
Publication Year: 1981
Publication Date: 1981-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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