Abstract
Energy is a vital infrastructure for economic development. Energy plays a vital role in human welfare as all important economic activities of present development are dependent on the use of energy. As on today, fossil fuels are still the main primary source of energy in the world. However, the use of these fossil fuels causes harm to the environment and the demand of energy is ever increasing at a faster rate due to increasing trend of modernization, industrialization, economic development and population growth. This increasing energy demand leads to energy (fuel) Crisis and rise in the price of petroleum thereby causing economic catastrophe. Most of all, Fossil fuels are non-renewable energy sources of energy, the total recoverable world reserves of the main fossil fuels are rapidly depleting at an alarming rate, as such, fossil fuels will surely be exhausted in not too distance future.
Highlights
A fuel is any material that can be made to react with other substances in order to produce energy in the form of heat through a process called combustion
Energy is a vital infrastructure for economic development
Energy plays a vital role in human welfare as all important economic activities of present development are dependent on the use of energy
Summary
A fuel is any material that can be made to react with other substances in order to produce energy in the form of heat through a process called combustion. The heat energy release can be use directly or converted into another form such as mechanical or electrical energy. A fuel can be solid such as wood, charcoal, coal, peat, etc. It can be liquid such as diesel, gasoline, kerosene, coal tar, naphtha, ethanol, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), etc. Fuel can appear as gaseous such as coal gas, water gas, hydrogen gas, propane, methane, Coke Oven Gas (CNG), etc. Apart from the solar energy in which all living things and non-living things in the universe depend on, fuel is the major form of energy needed in our daily activities. Depending on the source of the fuel, fuels are categorized into fossil fuels and biofuels [1]
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