Full FuelCycle Greenhouse Gas Emission Impacts of Transportation Fuels Produced from Natural Gas Argonne National Laboratory

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Wang, Michael, author.

Conference Name:

Total Life Cycle Conference and Exposition (2000-04-26 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource cm

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2000

Summary:

Because of its abundance and because it offers significant energy and environmental advantages, natural gas has been promoted for use in motor vehicles. A number of transportation fuels are produced from natural gas; each is distinct in terms of upstream production activities and vehicle usage. In this paper, we present greenhouse gas emission impacts of using various natural gasbased transportation fuels. We include eight fuels compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, methanol, hydrogen, dimethyl ether, FischerTropsch diesel, and electricity for use in five types of motor vehicles sparkignition vehicles, compressionignition vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, batterypowered electric vehicles, and fuelcell vehicles. In our evaluation, we separate these fuels and vehicle technologies into near and longterm options to address technology progress over time. Because of great uncertainties associated with advances in both fuel production and vehicle technologies, we establish both an "incremental technology scenario" and a "leapforward technology scenario" to cover a range of potential technology improvements. Our study reveals that, in general, the use of natural gasbased fuels reduces greenhouse gas emissions relative to use of petroleumbased gasoline and diesel, although different fuels in different vehicle technologies can have significantly different emissions impacts

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Publisher Number:

2000-01-1505

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