Event date:
Wed, 26/10/2011 - 08:00 - 09:15
Speaker:
Prof. Martin Tangney, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
In the push towards renewable energy and the reduction of carbon emissions a critical but frequently underestimated sector is that of liquid transportation fuel. At a time when there is a recognised international desire to reduce carbon emissions and a global need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuel, the world's transport fleet is increasing and is expected to double within the next 20 years.
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The Transport Evolution
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Prof Martin Tangney
Biofuel Research Centre
Edinburgh Napier University, UK
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In the push towards renewable energy and the reduction of carbon emissions a critical but frequently underestimated sector is that of liquid transportation fuel. At a time when there is a recognised international desire to reduce carbon emissions and a global need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuel, the world's transport fleet is increasing and is expected to double within the next 20 years. There is a consequential race to internationalise biofuels but with numerous different types of biofuel under development, and some considerable debate over the ethics of exploiting arable land for fuel crops, the issue of biofuel is clouded with uncertainty. Against this background, much of the world debates the relative merits of biofuel while under the misconception that biofuel is a new idea designed specifically to combat global warming. In reality, biofuels are the original liquid transportation fuels and while different countries have different reasons for developing biofuels the one true international driver that relentlessly accelerates biofuel development is the inescapable fact that our oil resources are finite and we face the dilemma of how best to replace fossil derived liquid transportation fuel.
Prof. Tangney joined Edinburgh Napier University in 2000 and was appointed as a Professor of Microbial Biotechnology in 2008. Prof Tangney is an internationally recognised expert in microbial biofuel production and in 2007 he established the UK's first research centre dedicated to the development of sustainable biofuel - the Biofuel Research Centre. Prof. Tangney has published in leading scientific journals and is an inventor on numerous patents. He serves on a number of national and international boards; he is an advisor to numerous biofuel and bioenergy companies. In August 2010 he made global news headlines when he announced a process for producing biobutanol as a sutainable next generation biofuel from the malt Whisky industry.
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Wednesday 26 October 2011
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8:00 - 9:15am
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