A city council is considering transitioning its public transport bus fleet from conventional petroleum diesel (petrodiesel) to biodiesel, which is produced from crop plants such as rapeseed or recycled waste cooking oil.
Evaluate the environmental, economic, and practical advantages and disadvantages of transitioning the bus fleet to biodiesel instead of continuing to use conventional diesel.
105 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Chemistry 9.1 Fuels, covering 9.1.1 Hydrocarbons and crude oil, 9.1.2 Fractional distillation of crude oil and its fractions, 9.1.3 The alkanes as a homologous series, 9.1.4 Complete and incomplete combustion, 9.1.5 Pollutants from burning fuels, 9.1.6 Hydrogen as a fuel and non-renewable fossil fuels, and 9.1.7 Cracking of larger alkanes. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.