Editorial
Biofuels - Top Subject
Neda Marčec-Rahelić
Abstract
A number of lectures in section B Fuel application, quality and environmental protection requirements on last year’s 39th scientific symposium FUELS 2006 has treated the subject of biofuels. The authors have in their papers treated the topical subject of introducing biofuels as replacement or component in mineral fuels used in traffic and transportation. Biofuels were the topic of both fuel and additive producers, as well as colleagues from the faculty, approaching the subject from the aspect of application in vehicles.
The subject has been topical globally, in Europe, and has been becoming so also in Croatia. European Comission has in 2003 passed the regulation 2003/30/EC on promoting biofuel use in transportation. Owing to the growth of the living standard, it is the traffic sector that records a constant increase of motor vehicles and motor fuels consumption. Key motivators of the European politicians in passing the regulation were: 1. seeking greater energy supply safety in Europe – freeing it in part from importing energy from oil-rich countries involved in constant war threats, 2. concern for agricultural development and management of excess agricultural products, in order to preserve workplaces in the agricultural sector, and 3. most of all concern for reducing the emission of greenhouse gases, in order to bring down the intensity of climatic changes.
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17503
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Publication date:
22.8.2007.
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