Agricultural Waste-Derived Management for Bioenergy: A Paradigm Shift in the Waste Perceptions

Experimental investigation of heating values and chemical compositions of selected fuel woods as bio-fuel sources in developing countries

“…In addition to meeting SDG-7's need for affordable and clean energy, harvesting usable energy from agricultural waste also has the potential to alleviate waste mismanagement problems, thereby tackling SDG-6, SDG-11 and SDG-13 in the process. To fully realize the promise of agrowaste-to-energy, however, concerted efforts would be needed to successfully link technology, economics, and political economy of livelihood through appropriate energy policy approaches [4].…”

Optimal sites for agricultural and forest residues energy conversion plant using geographic information system

“…The forest residue is therefore obtained from Equ. (4) where is forest residue, and RPR is Residue-to-Product ratio (assumed as 0.72 [ 12 ]).…”

“…Annually, Nigeria generates about 15.58 million tonnes of organic waste [ 10 ], of which only 20–30% are collected using the right means [ 11 ]. The indiscriminate disposal of these biomass wastes is an issue with consequences of environmental mismanagement, health hazard and climate change [ 12 ]. However, about 87.5% of these wastes come from crops and forest products, generally referred to as residues [ 13 ].…”

“…Edo state is also blessed with diverse climatic conditions appropriate for growing agricultural produce like cassava, oil palm, plantain, maize, corn, potatoes and others. The vast forest reserve and agricultural produce make the state an agro-waste generation state in the forms of crops residues and forest residues, which could be harnessed for clean energy generation to meet the energy needs of the state [ 5 , 12 ].…”