ISBN-13: 9783659243684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 112 str.
Irrecoverable rapid depletion of petroleum reserves, high price fluctuations, uncertainty in supply to consuming nations, high expenditure on fuel import, harmful effects of various exhaust emission on the human being and environment sorces to search for alternative fuels that they themselves can produce. These alternative fuels should be preferably available from renewable sources. Therefore, attention is mainly focused towards biomass- based fuels. Alternative considered are ethanol, methanol, biogas and vegetable oil, methyl or ethyl ester of vegetable oil (biodiesel).Karanja bio-diesel production should be improved according to higher environmental impacts than the conventional diesel fuel from life cycle aspects.