Potential of Biomass Conversion in Meeting the Energy Needs of the Rural Populations of Developing Countries: An Overview

Conference · Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1979

OSTI ID:5876973

Mubayi, V.; Lee, J.; Chatterjee, R.

A preliminary assessment is presented of the contribution that biomass conversion could make in the context of the rural areas of six developing countries: India, Indonesia, Peru, Sudan, Tanzania, and Thailand. The technologies selected for analysis are: anaerobic digestion of wet biomass to produce methane and pyrolysis of dry biomass to produce charcoal, liquid fuels, and low-Btu gases. Preliminary estimates are made of the amounts of fuels that could be produced in each of the selected countries by a combination of these technologies. It was found that, with the exception of India, implementation of these technologies could potentially meet the future energy needs of their rural populations for both subsistence and development. (MHR)

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA); State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook (USA). Inst. for Energy Research
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-02-0016
• OSTI ID: 5876973
• Report Number(s): BNL-26721; CONF-790917-11
• Resource Relation: Conference: American Chemical Society National Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 10 Sep 1979
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

09 BIOMASS FUELS
29 ENERGY PLANNING
POLICY AND ECONOMY
BIOMASS
AVAILABILITY
RESOURCE POTENTIAL
INDIA
INDONESIA
PERU
SUDAN
TANZANIA
THAILAND
CONVERSION
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ENERGY DEMAND
RURAL AREAS
SYNTHETIC FUELS
AFRICA
ASIA
ENERGY SOURCES
FUELS
LATIN AMERICA
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
SOUTH AMERICA
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