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Ethanol-Based Oxygenates from Biomass

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Publication date31/03/2004
Host publicationHandbook of MTBE and Other Gasoline Oxygenates
EditorsHalim Hamid Mohammad Ashraf Ali
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherCRC Press
Pages121-151
Number of pages31
ISBN (print)0824740580
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

It is not in doubt that strategic interest over the last three decades has been given by researchers and legislators to the controversial concept of gasoline oxygenates. This growing concern has led to many passionate debates on issues and eventual solutions to moderate the large dependence on fossil resources, to promote underutilized agriculture facilities, and to reduce environmental degradation. Although it has created an energetic force that definitively leans toward ethanol-based fuel oxygenates, the Kyoto Protocol remains in a certain sense a “utopia” as a result of many technical and other economical reasons.