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Environmental impact of alternative fuels and vehicle technologies: a life cycle assessment perspective

Nowadays a wide range of options of vehicles fuels and technologies are commercially available. Still, the complicated nature of environmental impacts caused by each option makes it a tough decision for the consumer, fleet manager, or policy maker to find the best choice. Even policy makers may run...

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Main Authors: Mohammadi Ashnani, Mohammad Hossein, Miremadi, Tahere, Johari, Anwar, Danekar, Afshin
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Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/63408/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284113806_Environmental_Forensics_Bridging_the_Gap_of_Science_and_the_'Art_of_Deductions'
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spelling my.utm.634082017-05-30T03:23:32Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/63408/ Environmental impact of alternative fuels and vehicle technologies: a life cycle assessment perspective Mohammadi Ashnani, Mohammad Hossein Miremadi, Tahere Johari, Anwar Danekar, Afshin TP Chemical technology Nowadays a wide range of options of vehicles fuels and technologies are commercially available. Still, the complicated nature of environmental impacts caused by each option makes it a tough decision for the consumer, fleet manager, or policy maker to find the best choice. Even policy makers may run into trouble regarding the relative advantages of cleaner options and their relative effects on fuel and vehicle cycle. In light of these, the present paper is an attempt to evaluate the life cycle environmental impacts of road vehicle fuels and available technologies and compare the cleaner options with each other and the main stream fuel/technologies. A complete fuel life cycle assessment (LCA) on petrol, diesel, compressed natural gas (CNG), electric vehicle (EV), hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (FCV), and biodiesel vehicles was made. Results are shown for climate change, air quality effects and Energy resource depletion impact of the different vehicle technologies. As recommended by the results, none of the options dominated the others regarding all dimensions. Instead of mandating a particular solution, such as electric cars or biofuels, probably successful vehicle and fuel policies include established standards of performance and levies to attenuate emissions and let the market to find the best effective alternative. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Mohammadi Ashnani, Mohammad Hossein and Miremadi, Tahere and Johari, Anwar and Danekar, Afshin (2015) Environmental impact of alternative fuels and vehicle technologies: a life cycle assessment perspective. In: Procedia Environmental Science/ International Conference on Environmental Forensics 2015 (IENFORCE2015), 2015. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284113806_Environmental_Forensics_Bridging_the_Gap_of_Science_and_the_'Art_of_Deductions'
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Mohammadi Ashnani, Mohammad Hossein
Miremadi, Tahere
Johari, Anwar
Danekar, Afshin
Environmental impact of alternative fuels and vehicle technologies: a life cycle assessment perspective
description Nowadays a wide range of options of vehicles fuels and technologies are commercially available. Still, the complicated nature of environmental impacts caused by each option makes it a tough decision for the consumer, fleet manager, or policy maker to find the best choice. Even policy makers may run into trouble regarding the relative advantages of cleaner options and their relative effects on fuel and vehicle cycle. In light of these, the present paper is an attempt to evaluate the life cycle environmental impacts of road vehicle fuels and available technologies and compare the cleaner options with each other and the main stream fuel/technologies. A complete fuel life cycle assessment (LCA) on petrol, diesel, compressed natural gas (CNG), electric vehicle (EV), hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (FCV), and biodiesel vehicles was made. Results are shown for climate change, air quality effects and Energy resource depletion impact of the different vehicle technologies. As recommended by the results, none of the options dominated the others regarding all dimensions. Instead of mandating a particular solution, such as electric cars or biofuels, probably successful vehicle and fuel policies include established standards of performance and levies to attenuate emissions and let the market to find the best effective alternative.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Mohammadi Ashnani, Mohammad Hossein
Miremadi, Tahere
Johari, Anwar
Danekar, Afshin
author_facet Mohammadi Ashnani, Mohammad Hossein
Miremadi, Tahere
Johari, Anwar
Danekar, Afshin
author_sort Mohammadi Ashnani, Mohammad Hossein
title Environmental impact of alternative fuels and vehicle technologies: a life cycle assessment perspective
title_short Environmental impact of alternative fuels and vehicle technologies: a life cycle assessment perspective
title_full Environmental impact of alternative fuels and vehicle technologies: a life cycle assessment perspective
title_fullStr Environmental impact of alternative fuels and vehicle technologies: a life cycle assessment perspective
title_full_unstemmed Environmental impact of alternative fuels and vehicle technologies: a life cycle assessment perspective
title_sort environmental impact of alternative fuels and vehicle technologies: a life cycle assessment perspective
publishDate 2015
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/63408/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284113806_Environmental_Forensics_Bridging_the_Gap_of_Science_and_the_'Art_of_Deductions'
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