The benefits of ethanol use for hydrogen production in urban transportation

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2525-2534

  Silveira, José Luz ^a   Braga, Lúcia Bollini ^a   de Souza, Antonio Carlos Caetano ^a   Antunes, Julio Santana ^a   Zanzi, Rolando ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Economical analyses; Ethanol; Fuel cell; Hydrogen; Urban buses

Indexed keywords

BIO-HYDROGEN; CLEAN URBAN TRANSPORT FOR EUROPE; ECONOMICAL ANALYSES; ECONOMICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY GENERATIONS; ETHANOL STEAM REFORMING; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH POWER DENSITY; IN-VEHICLE; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; LOW TEMPERATURES; NATURAL-GAS STEAM REFORMING; SOME-BUS; START-UPS; STEAM REFORMING; STOCKHOLM; URBAN BUSES; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

BUSES; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CELL MEMBRANES; ETHANOL; GAS INDUSTRY; GAS PRODUCERS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NATURAL GAS; PLATINUM; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); STEAM; STEAM ENGINEERING; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SUGAR CANE; SUGAR INDUSTRY; SUGARS; WIND POWER;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 68849124174     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2009.06.032     Document Type: Review

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