This study assesses the potential for bioenergy production using various feedstocks such as sugarcane, oil palm, and municipal solid waste in six Caribbean small island developing states – Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana.
BHUBANESWAR: In what could give a solid boost to carbon trading from renewable energy production systems, a remote monitoring mechanism that will keep a tab on actual time of functioning of decentralised energy production units has been designed by the State-run Orissa Renewable Energy Development Agency (OREDA). Since certified emission …
A majority of rural households in developing countries still use solid fuels for cooking. Many studies show linkages between the indoor air pollution from solid fuels with respiratory health problems. These estimates, however, suffer from an endogeneity bias arising from the effects of health conditions on fuel choice. This study …
The recent trends of increasing awareness of economic and environmental cost of conventional landfilling are being developed in accelerating pace for the degradation of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (MSW). The anaerobic digestion (AD) is viewed as an attractive method for waste stabilization prior to landfills as a …
In this study, the anaerobic digestion of different types of organic wastes including swept flour from the floor of flourmills, leftover food and vegetable waste is investigated. The performance of an anaerobic digester is dependent on the type and composition of the materials to be digested as well as the …
The government has been implementing the National Domestic Biogas and Manure Programme (NDBMP) from 2006 with the objective of developing and disseminating biogas technology in the rural areas with the ultimate objective of establishment of a sustainable and commercial biogas sector in the country. The Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL) …
India is witnessing an increasing demand for energy in its rapidly expanding economy and is making large investments in exploration, fuel production, generation, transmission and distribution of power and in setting up a grid infrastructure. However, gender-based empowerment, the needs of women and their access to and control over energy …
Climate change has a special significance for IFAD. Agriculture is the main source of livelihood for most poor rural people, and it is also the human activity most directly affected by climate change. Dealing with the inevitable impact of climate change is now high on the development agenda. By listening …
Bio gas is the answer for three major problems: environment management, energy management and agri system management, President of the Lanka Biogas Assosiation, Professor Ajith de Alwis, said at the launch of Biogas Association yesterday. Sri Lanka must try to promote bio gas as a technology. Though in the past …
A pilot project costing 5 million dollar to produce 486 meters cubic feet of bio-gas and 25 kilowatts of electricity per day from cow-dung has been commissioned in Landhi Cattle Colony. British company HiRAD Technology Plc, UK has installed this plant as a pilot project to utilise cow-dung and convert …
A total of 30,000 biogas plants have so far been installed in rural areas in the country as an alternative source of energy to reduce the use of firewood. People are using biogas for cooking, lighting and generation of electricity while residues from the plants utilised as organic fertiliser for …
Winrock International, in partnership with the Ford Foundation, has been implementing the project on 'Increasing Access of Poor Nepali Communities to Biogas Technology to Strengthen Livelihoods and to Enhance Environment Management', since August 2007.
Batch digestion of vegetable waste slurry was carried out in the laboratory using 2.5L capacity bottle reactors for 60 days at ambient conditions. The biogas yield from vegetable waste over the length of the digestion time was observed to be 0.391L/g of VS fed. The methane content of the biogas …
Biomass based power generation is one of the promising renewable options. This article reviews the status and potential of biomass based power for India.
A seminar on Green Chemistry was organised by Department of Chemistry, Arya Vidyapeeth College on June 28. Dr BK Das, Prof in Chemistry, Gauhati University delivered a popular talk on the recent developments in this new upcoming subject. He described the application of Green Chemistry in industrial and research areas …
Low-cost biogas, an alternative fuel for cooking, is increasingly getting popular among the people in different rural areas of Lalmonirhat. Biogas is not only used as fuel for cooking foods it is also being used for producing electricity. The people, who never thought of having electricity in their remote areas, …
biogas plants don't function well when ambient temperatures are low and hence remain out of use for greater part of the year, in the hills for example. The plants are most efficient when the temperature of slurry
