ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES FOR NON-HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

A planning study was made for DOE on alternate fuels for non-highway transportation (aircraft, rail, marine, and pipeline). The study provides DOE with a recommendation of what alternate fuels may be of interest to non-highway transportation users from now through 2025 and recommends R and D needed to allow non-petroleum derived fuels to be used in non-highway transportation. In the near term (present-1985), there is unlikely to be any major change in the fuels used in any of the four modes of transportation except that the average quality of the marine fuel is likely to get worse. In the mid-term period (1985-2000), there will be a transition to non-petroleum fuels, based primarily on shale oil derived liquids assuming a shale oil industry is started during this time. (ERA citation 05:033787)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also Appendices in RRIS Bulletin 8101, 16 323470.
• Corporate Authors:

  Exxon Research and Engineering Company

  US Highway 1 and Park Avenue
  Linden, NJ  United States  07036

  Department of Energy

  1000 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20585
• Publication Date: 1980-6

Media Info

• Pagination: 26 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft; Alternate fuels; Biomass; Coal; Development; Diesel engines; Diesel fuels; Economics; Energy resources; Evaluation; Fuel substitution; Fuels; Gas turbines; Motors; Nuclear power; Oil shales; Otto cycle engines; Pipelines; Railroads; Research; Shale oil; Solar energy; Spark ignition engines; Steam turbines; Stirling engines; Stratified charge engines; Synthetic fuels; Water transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Energy sources; Research and development
• Old TRIS Terms: Otto cycle
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Economics; Energy; Marine Transportation; Pipelines; Railroads; Research; Terminals and Facilities; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00337449
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Contract Numbers: AC05-77CS55438
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 15 1981 12:00AM