A Technological-Economic-Organizational Analysis of Ethanol as an Automobile Fuel

乙醇作为汽车燃料的技术经济组织分析

• 批准号: 0115418
• 负责人: Lester Lave
• 金额: $ 31.11万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-07-01 至 2004-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0115418&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Technological; Economic; Organizational; Analysis; Ethanol

This project proposes a technological-economic-organizational analysis of the barriers preventing the substitution of cellulosic ethanol from replacing gasoline as a fuel for automobiles and light trucks in the United States. They propose to investigate the amount of ethanol that could be produced in the US and its cost of production, the circumstances under which it might displace gasoline as a motor fuel, and the technological, economic, and organizational barriers to ethanol use. Even if cellulosic ethanol were more attractive than gasoline as a motor fuel, hundreds of billions of dollars of infrastructure are presently dedicated to gasoline use. Enormous inertia together with specific technological, economic and organizational barriers would be expected to hamper the transition to ethanol. Building on prior work on alternative automobile fuels and working relationships with General Motors, Ford, Texaco, ExxonMobil and BP Amoco, the researchers will examine the conditions under which ethanol might become a more attractive fuel, and the organizational and other barriers to its adoption.

该项目提出了对障碍的技术 - 经济组织分析，以防止纤维素乙醇取代美国的汽车和轻型卡车的燃料。他们建议调查美国可以生产的乙醇及其生产成本，可能将汽油作为运动燃料取代的情况以及技术，经济和组织障碍的使用。即使纤维素乙醇比汽油作为运动燃料更具吸引力，但目前仍致力于汽油的使用。期望巨大的惯性以及特定的技术，经济和组织障碍会阻碍向乙醇的过渡。研究人员将以先前的替代汽车燃料和与通用汽车（福特，埃克森美孚和BP Amoco）的工作关系为基础，研究人员将研究乙醇可能成为更具吸引力的燃料的条件，以及其采用其采用的组织和其他障碍。