Renewable Energy

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 07.05.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Crude Oil
  3. Gasoline in Automobiles
  4. Pollutants from Car Exhaust
  5. Pollution Effects from Transportation
  6. Carbon Cycle
  7. Forest Management and Carbon Sequestration
  8. Presenting the Transportation Options
  9. Lessons
  10. Distillation of Simulated Crude Oil
  11. Determining the Amount of Emissions Emitted by Local Commuter Vehicles
  12. Determining the Amount of Carbon Sequestered by a Woodland
  13. Student Resource Binder Articles
  14. Bibliography / Teacher Content and Teaching Resources

Petroleum: Our Best Transportation Option?

Justin T. Benz

Published September 2007

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Student Resource Binder Articles

This is by no means a large sampling of articles out there. I was able to acquire many more articles to place in student resource binders; the citations for all would not fit in this section due to space requirements for this unit.

Blottnitz, H., & Curran, M. (2007). A review of assessments conducted on bio-ethanol as a transportation fuel from a net energy, greenhouse gas, and environmental life cycle perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production, 607-619.

Bossel, U. (2006). Does a Hydrogen Economy Make Sense? Proceedings of the IEEE, 94, 1826-1837.

Chalk, S., & Miller, J. F. (2006). Key challenges and recent progress in batteries, fuel cells, and hydrogen storage for clean energy systems. Journal of Power Sources, 159, 73-80.

Demirbas, M. F., & Balat, M. (2006). Recent advances on the production and utilization trends of bio-fuels: A global perspective. Energy Conversion and Management, 2371-2381.

Ethanol for transportation. (2002). Issues in Science and Technology, 18.

Karner, D., & Francfort, J. (2006). US Department of Energy Hybrid Electric Vehicle Battery and Fuel Economy Testing. Journal of Power Sources, 1173-1177.

Lund, H., & Munster, E. (2006). Integrated transportation and energy sector CO 2 emission control strategies. Transport Policy, 13, 426-433.

Malca, J., & Freire, F. (2006). Renewability and life-cycle energy efficiency of bioethanol and bio-ethyl tertiary butyl ether (bioETBE): Assessing the implications of allocation. Energy, 3362-3380.

Mierlo, J. V., & Maggetto, G. (2007). Fuel Cell OR Battery: Electric cars are the Future. Fuel Cells, 07, 165-173.

Petrus, L., & Noordermeer, M. (2006). Biomass to biofuels, a chemical perspective. Green Chemistry, 861-867.

Polasky, S., Tilman, D., Hill, J., Nelson, E., & Tiffany, D. (2006). Environmental, economic and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels. PNAS, 103, 11206-11210.

Rahman, S., & Andrews, C. (2006). Special Issue on the Hydrogen Economy. Proceedings of the IEEE, 94, 1781-1784.

Solli, C., Stromman, A. H., & Hertwich, E. G. (2006). Fission or Fossil: Life Cycle Assessment of Hydrogen Production. Proceedings of the IEEE, 94, 1785-1794.

Wu, M., Wu, Y., & Wang, M. (2006). Energy and emission benefits of alternative transportation liquid fuels derived from switchgrass: a fuel cycle assessment. Biotechnology Prog., 22, 1012-1024.

Yeh, S., Loughlin, D., Shay, C., & Gage, C. (2006). An integrated assessment of the Impacts of Hydrogen Economy on Transportation, Energy Use, and Air Emissions. Proceedings of the IEEE, 94, 1838-1851.

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