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.

该项目对阻碍纤维素乙醇替代汽油作为汽车和轻型卡车燃料的障碍进行了技术-经济-组织分析。他们提议调查美国可生产的乙醇数量及其生产成本，在什么情况下乙醇可能取代汽油作为汽车燃料，以及乙醇使用的技术、经济和组织障碍。即使纤维素乙醇作为汽车燃料比汽油更具吸引力，目前仍有数千亿美元的基础设施专门用于汽油使用。巨大的惯性，加上特定的技术、经济和组织障碍，预计将阻碍向乙醇的过渡。基于之前在替代汽车燃料方面的工作，以及与通用汽车、福特、德士古、埃克森美孚和英国石油阿莫科的工作关系，研究人员将研究乙醇可能成为更具吸引力的燃料的条件，以及采用乙醇的组织和其他障碍。