Title:
Electric Power from Agricultural Residual Biomass (ARB) in Colombia - Option of Rural Development after the Armed Conflict
Author(s):
López Martínez, G., Buriticá Arboleda, C., Silva Lora, E.
Document(s):
Paper
Poster
Abstract:
After fifty years of a civil war in Colombia, known as "armed conflict", peace was signed in November 2016, between the national government and the largest armed group in the country; During these years, most of the rural areas were abandoned and unproductive. The demand for electric power in 2015 was 66,548 GWh, which was generated with an installed capacity of 16,436 MW, supported by large-scale hydraulic resources (70.0%) and fossil fuels (29.3%), the rest (0.7%) corresponded to cogeneration with cane bagasse (0.6%) and wind energy (0.1%). The nine main agricultural crops in the country generate a little more than 53.6 million tons of agricultural residual biomass (ARB), which is likely to be harnessed energy. In this ARB the residual biomass necessary for the supply of nutrients to the soil has been discounted, to avoid its degradation. If this ARB is used for electricity generation, it is estimated that it would be possible to generate at least 27,801 GWh y-1, and at most 59,895 GWh year-1, depending on the conversion technologies used, amounts corresponding to 41.8% and 90.0% of the energy generated in Colombia in 2015, respectively.
Keywords:
agricultural residues, biomass, rural development
Topic:
Biomass Resources
Subtopic:
Biomass potentials and biomass mobilisation
Event:
26th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
1CV.8.8
Pages:
253 - 256
ISBN:
978-88-89407-18-9
Paper DOI:
10.5071/26thEUBCE2018-1CV.8.8
Price:
FREE
