Coupled with increasing oil prices, increasing awareness of the global impacts of greenhouse gases has led to concerns over the continued consumption of fossil fuels worldwide.

Consequently, many developed and developing countries have considered the possibility of large-scale production and sue of biofuels, such as bio-ethanol and bio-diesel, as alternatives to hydrocarbon fuels.


Biofuels: towards a greener and secure energy future provides an assessment of current practices and knowledge on the production, conversion, and use of biofuels, and is the result of experiences provided by a diverse group of distinguished persons who have been dealing with this subject for some time now. The book is intended to be a ready reckoner for individuals, farmers, policy-makers, researchers, automobile manufacturers, as well as agencies and institutions interested in taking forward the energy security agenda in general and the promotion of biofuels in particular.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Vinod Khosla, Partner,Khosla Ventures
Introduction
R K Pachauri

SECTION 1: Policy issues in biofuels
Biofuels in the Indian perspective
Leena Srivastava

The Indian biofuels programme: the National Mission on Bio-diesel
R Mandal and Parveen Mithra

Biofuels: helping India reduce oil dependence
K S Sethi

SECTION 2: Bio-ethanol production
Bio-ethanol: lessons from the Brazilian experience
Oswalldo Lucon

International experiences in biofuels
Prabha Dhavala

Alternative feedstock for bio-ethanol production in India
Linoj Kumar NV and Sameer Maithel

SECTION 3: Bio-diesel from jatropha
Bio-diesel from jatropha: the road map
H M Behl

Raising large-scale jatropha plantation in India:present status and future prospects
Padam Prakash Bhojvaid

Jatropha for wasteland development: TERI's
mycorrhiza technology
Alok Adholeya and Reena Singh

Recent trends in bio-diesel production
A K Gupta

Quality considerations in Jatropha curcas
Nutan Kaushik

Research issues in development of bio-diesel engines
L M Das and venu Madhav

Long-run marginal-cost-based economic evaluation of bio-diesel production from jatropha
Anandajit Goswami

Environmental impacts of bio-diesel
Shubha Pandey and T S Panwar

Clean development mechanism potential of bio-diesel projects
Vivek Kumar and Prabha Dhaval

SECTION 4: Biofuel experiences in the states of India
Experiences of the Chhatisgarh Biofuel Development Authority
S K Shukla

Jatropha for sustainable employment, energy security and for checking soil erosion
A K Lohia

Biofuels: the Andhra Pradesh experience
M Prasad

Directory of websites on biofuels