Biofuels are a growing alternative energy source. In a context of their growing global consumption, Brazil has shown particular interest in the European market. This paper analyses Brazilian foreign policy on biofuels ...

Rapid growth of biofuel production in the United States and Brazil over the past decade has increased interest in replicating this success in other nations of the Pan American region. However, the continued use of food-based ...

In this work, we extend the Group Contribution with Association Equation of State (GCA-EOS) to model the phase behavior of mixtures comprising ethers and alcohols. The model parametrization was done using few binary ...

Purpose: The assessment of biofuels has until now mainly focused on energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. Only little attention has been given to other impacts, although the general importance of water use for the ...

During the last decade a great growth in biofuel industry all over the world has occurred. The last few years this tendency has severely changed due to new rules and pressure over the public questioning the sustainability ...

Life-cycle assessment (LCA) has been applied to many biofuel and bioenergy systems to determine potential environmental impacts, but the conclusions have varied. Different methodologies and processes for conducting LCA of ...

The issues of global warming, coupled with fossil fuel depletion, have undoubtedly led to renewed interest in other sources of commercial fuels. The search for renewable fuels has motivated research into the biological ...