This book provides a comprehensive overview of the application of liquid biofuels to internal
combustion (IC) engines. Biofuels are one of the most promising renewable and sustainable
energy sources. Particularly liquid biofuels obtained from biomass could become a valid
alternative to the use of fossil fuels in the light of increasingly stringent environmental
constraints. In this book the discussion is limited to liquid biofuels obtained from
triglycerides and lignocellulose among the many different kinds of biomass. Several liquid
biofuels from triglycerides straight vegetable oil biodiesel produced from inedible vegetable
oil hydrotreated vegetable oil and pyrolytic oil have been selected for discussion as well
as biofuels from lignocellulose bio-oil alcohols such as methanol ethanol and butanol and
biomass-to-liquids diesel. This book includes three chapters on the application of methanol
ethanol and butanol to advanced compression ignition (CI) engines such as LTC HCCI RCCI and
DF modes. Further the application of other higher alcohols and other drop-in fuels such as DMF
MF MTHF and GVL are also discussed. The book will be a valuable resource for graduate
students researchers and engine designers who are interested in the application of alcohols
and other biofuels in advanced CI engines and also useful for alternative energy planners
selecting biofuels for CI engines in the future.
