Future Transportation Fuels Study Topic Papers

Transportation Demand

Paper #1: Air Transportation Demand

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Paper #2: Rail Transportation Demand

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Paper #3: Truck Transportation Demand

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Vehicle Platform Technologies

Paper #4: Alcohol Boosted Turbo Gasoline Engines

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Paper #5: The Connected Car: Smart Technologies to Reduce Congestion (Intelligent Transport Systems)

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Paper #6: Low Temperature Combustion

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Paper #7: Mass-Market Adoption of Ultralightweight Automobiles

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Hydrocarbon Liquids

Paper #8: Production of Alternative Liquid Hydrocarbon Transportation Fuels from Natural Gas, Coal, and Coal and Biomass (XTL)

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Biofuels

Paper #9: Analysis of the Fatty Acid Biosynthetic Pathway for the Production of Fuels in Genetically Engineered Bacteria

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Paper #10: Are We Going to be Able to Meet World Food and Biofuel Demands in 2050? (Long Term Food and Biofuels Projections)

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Paper #11: Genetic Engineering to Add Traits Not Natural to the Feedstock

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Paper #12: Macroalgae (Seaweeds)

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Paper #13: Microbial Fuel Cells

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Paper #14: Separations Landscape for the Production of Biofuels

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Paper #15: U.S. Woody Biomass Yields at the State and Regional Level

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Paper #16: Yield Projections for Major U.S. Field Crops and Potential Biomass Crops

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Electric

Paper #17: Advanced Batteries: “Beyond Li-ion”

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Paper #18: Emerging Electric Vehicle Business Models

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Paper #19: The Interaction Between Plug-in Electric Vehicles, Distributed Generation, and Renewable Power (Electric Vehicles for Distributed Storage)

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Paper #20: Vehicle to Grid (V2G)

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Natural Gas

Paper #21: An Initial Qualitative Discussion on Safety Considerations for LNG Use in Transportation

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Paper #22: Renewable Natural Gas for Transportation: An Overview of the Feedstock Capacity, Economics, and GHG Emission Reduction Benefits of RNG as a Low-Carbon Fuel

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Hydrogen

Paper #23: Development of Non-Precious Metal Catalyst for Oxygen Reduction in PEM Fuel Cells

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Hydrogen/Natural Gas

Paper #24: Advanced Storage Technologies for Hydrogen and Natural Gas

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Paper #25: Hydrogen-Compressed Natural Gas (HCNG) Transport Fuel