Article | REF: BM2591 V2

Natural gas – fossil energy

Authors: Richard TILAGONE, Bertrand LECOINTE

Publication date: July 10, 2014, Review date: October 1, 2020

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5. Conclusion

  • Both an abundant energy resource and a transportation fuel, natural gas offers physico-chemical characteristics that make it a fuel with very high potential for energy diversification and the reduction of CO 2 emissions.

  • Variations in fuel composition are a challenge to overcome in vehicle applications. Although the available control systems are sufficiently robust to overcome these variations (albeit to a limited extent), they nevertheless have a direct influence on the amount of energy stored on board the vehicle, and hence its range. The use of LNG offers interesting prospects.

  • The strong emergence of shale gas, the need to diversify transport fuels and the normative constraints in terms of pollutant...

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