Technical Reports and Tools

Latest Technical Reports and Tools in Biofuels

• Measuring the energy and greenhouse gas balances of biofuels and bio-based chemicals using LCA, NNFCC 12-023

  02 May 2012

  This report investigates the importance of allocation procedures in reporting and understanding energy and greenhouse gas balances from life cycle assessment of biofuels and bio-based chemicals.

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• Advanced Biofuels: The Potential for a UK Industry, NNFCC 11-011

  17 Nov 2011

  This report examines the potential of advanced biofuels in the UK.

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• Economic Analysis of Advanced Biofuels in the UK, NNFCC 11-011

  17 Nov 2011

  This report examines the economics of advanced biofuels in the UK.

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• Pathways to UK Biofuels: A Guide to Existing and Future Options for Transport, NNFCC 10-035

  22 Jun 2010

  This report offers a simple guide to the pathways available for the production of biofuels for transport. It is intended to facilitate strategy planners and policy makers in decision making regarding the future of biofuels in the UK.

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• GHG Benefits from Use of Vegetable Oils for Electricity, Heat, Transport and Industrial Purposes, NNFCC 10-016

  30 Mar 2010

  The aims of this study were to evaluate and compare the total greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of refined vegetable oils derived from a range of specified biomass feedstocks and their subsequent use, either as oils or derived biodiesel, in a range of end-use applications.

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• Assessing the Potential for Algae in the UK

  01 Mar 2010

  Assessing the Potential for the UK in Algae: Report on outputs from the DECC workshop held on 12th November 2009.

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• Advanced Thermochemical Biofuels Roadmap and Challenge, NNFCC 09-014

  25 Nov 2009

  The aim of this project was to develop a road map for the development of sufficient UK BtL capacity to produce between 1 and 2% of the energy of the UK’s liquid transport fuels.

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• Evaluation of Opportunities for Converting Indigenous UK Wastes to Fuels and Energy (Report), NNFCC 09-012

  12 Oct 2009

  This study findings help gain an appropriate and effective insight into the waste market in the UK and how waste might be used in the most efficient way as a resource for energy and fuels.

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• Evaluation of Opportunities for Converting Indigenous UK Wastes to Fuels and Energy (Presentation), NNFCC 09-012

  12 Oct 2009

  This study findings help gain an appropriate and effective insight into the waste market in the UK and how waste might be used in the most efficient way as a resource for energy and fuels.

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• Life Cycle and Techno-Economic Assessment of the North East BtL Project: Thermal Processes for Biofuels, NNFCC 08-018

  30 Jul 2009

  This report considers alternative thermochemical process routes from solid raw biomass to hydrocarbons or blendable alcohols including biomass supplies, pretreatment by fast pyrolysis and torrefaction, preparation, gasification, direct and indirect synthesis of hydrocarbons and incorporation of products into transport fuel infrastructures.

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