Increased Automobile Fuel Efficiency and Synthetic Fuels: Alternatives for Reducing Oil Imports. Background Paper Number 4. Environmental Issues of Synthetic Transportation Fuels from Coal

摘要

The report provides a state of the art review of the environmental problems, including: a comparison of environmental differences among competing synfuels technologies; an evaluation of the environmental differences between strict and lenient levels of control; an identification of impacts aggravated by accelerated development; a comparison of significant differences in impacts among coal-producing regions; and a description of the uncertainty of synthetic fuels environmental data and environmental effects. This study emphasizes the processing and end-use phases of coal liquefaction technology to produce transportation fuels during the next several decades.