Eco friendly fuels

 Eco friendly fuels

What is an Eco friendly fuel ?

An Eco friendly fuel is an ecological friendly fuel. Its production and use has a minimum impact on the environment. Eco-friendly fuels are produced from naturally occurring materials - examples are bio-gas and bio-diesel .

Why Eco fuels 

Most are fuels like petroleum and coal etc are formed from the organic remains and dead plants and animals. They contain high percentage of carbon and hydrocarbons. As a result they release harmful gases.

with increasing energy need the production and use of these fuels are in excess and the created many serious environmental problems like air pollution, global warming, rising sea levels etc.

Some examples of Eco friendly fuels

1. Natural gas

2. Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)

3. Compressed natural gas (CNG)

4. Bio-diesel

5. Electricity 

6. Hydrogen

Natural gas

Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly includes varying amounts of other higher alkanes and even a lesser percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and hydrogen sulphide.

Because of the gaseous nature of this fuel, it must be stored on board a vehicle in either a compressed gaseous state or in the liquefied state.

Natural gas is one of the most affordable forms of energy available to the president consumer. Natural gas is the lowest cost conservation of energy source available for residential use.

Cooking with the natural gas can provide many benefits, including easy temperature control, self ignition and self cleaning, as well as being approximately one half the cost of cooking with an electric range.

A natural gas vehicle can be less expensive to operate than a comparable conventionally fuelled vehicle depending on natural gas prices.

Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)

Liquefied petroleum gas is one of the most common and an alternative fuels used in the world today. The gas is a mixture of hydrocarbon gases used as a fuse for various purposes. This is mainly used to heating appliances and vehicles and is replacing chlorofluorocarbons as an aerosol propellant. It is also used as refrigerant mainly to reduce damage to the ozone layer.

LPG is also used as alternative for petroleum and diesel. The main reason behind this being the difference in the prices of the oil. LPG has emerged as such preferred choice. LPG is a fossil fuel and can be refined from oil and natural gas.

Compressed natural gas (CNG)

CNG is eco friendly fuel and wallet friendly fuel. The main component of CNG fuel is methane (ch4), the finest fuel that come out from the gasoline tanks even before LPG (liquid petroleum gas c2h6). CNG fuel is lighter than air raised upward even when mix with air. low-density CNG mix with air and does not catch fire. CNG is safer than petrol if precautions have been taken carefully. CNG fuel does not pollute environment because methane burning in its only carbon dioxide CO2. Percentage of carbon monoxide come out after CNG combustion is negligible.

compressed natural gas is used as an alternative fuels for autos and trucks. It is not widely available, so cab companions, and the like, would put a compressor at their depot. This gives all the taxis a limited range and a single source of refueling.

Bio-diesel

Bio-diesel is a domestically produced, renewable fuel that can be manufactured from vegetable oil, animal fats or recycled restaurant greasers.

Bio-diesel is safe by edible and reduce serious air pollutant such as particulates, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and air toxins.

Electricity

Electricity can be used as a transportation fuel to power battery electric and fuel cell vehicles. When used to power electric vehicles, electricity is stored in an energy storage device such as battery.

EV batteries have a limited storage capacity and their electricity must be replenished by plugging the vehicle into an electrical source.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen, a gas, will play an important role in developing sustainable transportation in the world because in the future it may be produced in virtually unlimited quantities using renewable resources.

Hydrogen and oxygen from air fed into a proton exchange membrane membrane fuel cell produce enough electricity to power and electric automobile, without producing harmful emissions. The only byproduct of hydrogen fuel cell is water.