alternative fuel

This study develops an analytical framework to automatically generate optimal plans for fleet operations and conversion based on fleet-specific characteristics. The goal of the framework is to allow agencies to minimize the fleet-wide energy use, life-cycle CO2 emissions, and/or economic costs when transitioning to alternative fuels.

The goal of this dissertation is to analyze applications through the lens of circular economy in California based on life cycle assessment (LCA) and techno-economic analysis (TEA).

The University of California, Davis and the California Energy Commission held a series of three Emerging Technologies Workshops to identify environmentally and economically promising alternative fuel and vehicle emerging technologies.

In this thesis, the reasons behind increased digestibility of Alamo switchgrass after CELF were investigated in comparison to research benchmark dilute sulfuric acid (DSA) pretreatment.

This policy brief summarizes research that suggests that the combination of significantly improved vehicle efficiency coupled with very low-carbon fuels can help the trucking sector reach greenhouse gas targets.

This paper reviews literature on production cost at the plantgate – without considering taxes or delivery costs – for selected biofuel technology pathways using a levelized cost of fuel approach, applying common financing assumptions for capital amortization and converting all values to year 2016 dollars, and examines results in the current low carbon fuel policy context.