NPC Future Transportation Fuels Study:
Advancing Technology for America’s Transportation Future
Study Topic Papers
All files are .pdf unless otherwise indicated
Topic Papers
Transportation Demand
Paper #1: Air Transportation Demand
Paper #2: Rail Transportation Demand
Paper #3: Truck Transportation Demand
Vehicle Platform Technologies
Paper #4: Alcohol Boosted Turbo Gasoline Engines
Paper #5: The Connected Car: Smart Technologies to Reduce Congestion (Intelligent Transport Systems)
Paper #6: Low Temperature Combustion
Paper #7: Mass-Market Adoption of Ultralightweight Automobiles
Hydrocarbon Liquids
Paper #8: Production of Alternative Liquid Hydrocarbon Transportation Fuels from Natural Gas, Coal, and Coal and Biomass (XTL)
Biofuels
Paper #9: Analysis of the Fatty Acid Biosynthetic Pathway for the Production of Fuels in Genetically Engineered Bacteria
Paper #10: Are We Going to be Able to Meet World Food and Biofuel Demands in 2050? (Long Term Food and Biofuels Projections)
Paper #11: Genetic Engineering to Add Traits Not Natural to the Feedstock
Paper #12: Macroalgae (Seaweeds)
Paper #13: Microbial Fuel Cells
Paper #14: Separations Landscape for the Production of Biofuels
Paper #15: U.S. Woody Biomass Yields at the State and Regional Level
Paper #16: Yield Projections for Major U.S. Field Crops and Potential Biomass Crops
Electric
Paper #17: Advanced Batteries: “Beyond Li-ion”
Paper #18: Emerging Electric Vehicle Business Models
Paper #19: The Interaction Between Plug-in Electric Vehicles, Distributed Generation, and Renewable Power (Electric Vehicles for Distributed Storage)
Paper #20: Vehicle to Grid (V2G)
Natural Gas
Paper #21: An Initial Qualitative Discussion on Safety Considerations for LNG Use in Transportation
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
Hydrogen
Paper #23: Development of Non-Precious Metal Catalyst for Oxygen Reduction in PEM Fuel Cells
Hydrogen/Natural Gas
Paper #24: Advanced Storage Technologies for Hydrogen and Natural Gas
Paper #25: Hydrogen-Compressed Natural Gas (HCNG) Transport Fuel
New Fuels
Paper #26: Artificial Photosynthesis
Greenhouse Gases and Environment
Paper #27: Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS)
Paper #28: Criteria Air Pollutants
Paper #29: Greenhouse Gas Life Cycle Assessment/Analysis
Paper #30: Data Variability and Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Life Cycle Assessment
Paper #31: Water Usage
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