JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, cilt.119, ss.156-162, 2014 (SCI-Expanded)
Recently, exhaustion of primary energy sources and increase in the atmospheric CO2 levels have become two major energy challenges of the world; therefore, utilization of alternative energy sources and avoiding the emission of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere are some of the serious problems of this century that should be addressed immediately. Many alternatives are being assessed to solve or at least to cease the negative effects of these issues.