Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword: on the transition to hydrogen
- Preface
- Executive summary
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Life cycle assessment of hydrogen production
- 3 Technical characterisation and multi-criteria analysis of light-duty vehicles
- 4 Hydrogen emissions to the atmosphere from industry and transportation
- 5 Regional fleet simulation
- 6 Long-term scenarios of the global energy and transport system
- 7 Integrated assessment of hydrogen in transportation
- Appendix A Summary of fundamental assumptions
- Appendix B Selected input assumptions, technology descriptions, and heuristics
- Appendix C Characteristics of the present and future vehicle designs
- Appendix D Survey questionnaire and aggregated responses
- Appendix E Assumptions and inputs driving fleet dynamics simulation
- References
- Index
- Plates
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword: on the transition to hydrogen
- Preface
- Executive summary
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Life cycle assessment of hydrogen production
- 3 Technical characterisation and multi-criteria analysis of light-duty vehicles
- 4 Hydrogen emissions to the atmosphere from industry and transportation
- 5 Regional fleet simulation
- 6 Long-term scenarios of the global energy and transport system
- 7 Integrated assessment of hydrogen in transportation
- Appendix A Summary of fundamental assumptions
- Appendix B Selected input assumptions, technology descriptions, and heuristics
- Appendix C Characteristics of the present and future vehicle designs
- Appendix D Survey questionnaire and aggregated responses
- Appendix E Assumptions and inputs driving fleet dynamics simulation
- References
- Index
- Plates
Summary
Study motivation
Future transportation systems face a broad range of requirements. They must be economic, clean, low-carbon, efficient, and reliable (to name just a few). These characteristics must be based not only on the vehicles, but also upon their fuel supply chains. Using hydrogen as a fuel offers a possible solution to satisfying global mobility needs, including sustainability of supply and the potential for significant reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Because hydrogen is an energy carrier that must be produced from primary energy resources, sustainability also implies that the hydrogen must be cleanly and economically produced, whether this involves carbon capture and storage (CCS), renewable energy resources, or long-term nuclear solutions.
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- Transition to HydrogenPathways Toward Clean Transportation, pp. 1 - 12Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011