There is established infrastructure for feedstock supply and biofuels distribution.
The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels is an international initiative which brings together farmers, companies, governments, non-governmental organizations, and scientists who are interested in the sustainability of biofuels production and distribution.
In addition, it reviews related research on agri-products, which have some commonalities relative to harvesting and perishability; petroleum-based fuels, which have some commonalities related to distribution (some biofuels can be mixed with gasoline but others cannot); and generic supply chains, which provide some applicable modeling structures.
3. Developing the production and distribution of biofuels.
There has been less work addressing the design of the distribution network for biofuel SC, in centralised/decentralised distribution, covering financial and environmental aspects.
The methods are to decarbonize electricity generation, electrify heating and transportation, increase efficiency, modernize transmission and distribution, and use biofuels for freight transportation.
Thus, biohydrocarbons hold the potential to be developed into 'drop-in' biofuels compatible with the existing distribution infrastructures used for gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels in terms of their fatty acyl chain length [ 3].
There are many hurdles which need to be overcome before this happens, but Boeing's hope is that commercial distribution can allow sustainable biofuel to be used by all commercial aircraft on a routine basis in five to seven years.
de Gorter, Harry; Just, David R. A general theory is developed to analyze the efficiency and income distribution effects of a biofuel consumer tax exemption and the interaction effects with a price contingent farm subsidy.
The existing infrastructure of fuel production, storage and distribution is suitable for biofuels.
