Biogas for household use: the case of Nepal

Castro, J.F.M. de

doi:10.1016/s0973-0826(08)60098-8

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“…However, the promotion and dissemination of the technology came into effect after the establishment of Gober Gas Company (GGC) by the government of Nepal in 1977 (Bajgain et al, 2005;Katuwal and Bohara, 2009). After its recognition as a feasible technology and realizing the importance, the Biogas Support Program was launched in the fiscal year 1992-1993 in a joint venture of the Agricultural Development Bank of Nepal, GGC and the Netherlands Development Organization (SNV/N) (Bajgain et al, 2005;de Castro, 1995;Katuwal and Bohara, 2009). Furthermore, the establishment of the biogas technology was popularized by the Alternative Energy Promotion Center (AEPC) (AEPC, 2012;WECS, 2010).…”

Section: Generation Of Biogas From Msw: Potential For Managing and Gementioning

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Municipal Solid Waste Management: Challenges and Opportunities in Nepal

Gurung¹,

2012

Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer

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Nepal is one of the least urbanized countries in the world where more than 80% of the total population live in rural areas. In recent years, the rate of urbanization became rampant which ultimately accelerated immense pressure on municipal services, especially on managing the ever increasing amount of wastes. Due to lack of technology, infrastructure and financial capacity management of increasing amount of solid waste has become a major challenge in municipalities of Nepal. The indiscriminate dumping of solid wastes already affected the urban environment by creating a serious occupational health and environmental hazard to the vicinity of the dumping sites. However, there is great possibility of recovering methane from the landfill sites since the typical Nepalese municipal solid waste contains more than 65% of organic wastes. Despite having enormous potential of generating electricity from hydropower, Nepal is facing acute shortage of energy. Therefore, comprehensive scientific research and development is necessary for making solid waste to environmentally friendly by converting waste to the energy.

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Section: Generation Of Biogas From Msw: Potential For Managing and Gementioning

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Municipal Solid Waste Management: Challenges and Opportunities in Nepal

Gurung¹,

2012

Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer

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“…Various design parameters were taken into account for efficient design such as air requirement for complete combustion, injector orifice, primary aeration, flame port and mixture tube and throat. The calculation of each required component was done according to the procedure suggested by Fulford [11] is discussed in this section. The parameters of designed domestic biogas stove are presented in Table 1.…”

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Improved Biogas Stove with Scrubbing Unit for Household Use

Kurchania

Panwar

Pagar

2011

Waste Biomass Valor

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The matured biogas production technology has led to the development of a number of biogas appliances for lighting, power generation and cooking. The most promising among them is the biogas stove to meet the energy requirement for cooking application at domestic level. In this paper attempt has been made to design and develop a domestic biogas stove and also a scrubber to improve the quality of biogas gas. The performance of the stove was evaluated by using 2 m 3 floating type biogas plant. The thermal efficiency of developed stove was recorded about 60%. Developed scrubber worked satisfactory and it was in position to remove 13-15% of CO 2 from biogas after 4 h whereas pH of water was reduced from 7.0 to 5.36.

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“…It helps to reduce the rate of deforestation and environmental deterioration by providing biogas as a substitute for firewood and dung cakes to meet the energy demand of the rural population [11]. It also improves hygiene and health of the rural population, especially women, by elimination of smoke produced during cooking on firewood, by reduction in the hardships of collection of firewood, and by stimulation of better management of dung and night soil and to increase agricultural production by promoting optimal utilization of digested dung as organic fertilizer [12]. There are a number of biogas stoves which are converted from LPG stoves which are available in the market for domestic cooking applications.…”

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Development of domestic biogas stove

Kurchania

Panwar

Pagar

2011

Biomass Conv. Bioref.

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The matured biogas production technology has led to the development of a number of biogas appliances for lighting, power generation, and cooking. The most promising among them is the biogas stove to meet the energy requirement for cooking application at domestic level. In this paper attempt has been made to design and develop a domestic biogas stove for meeting domestic cooking energy need. The performance of the stove was evaluated by using 2 m 3 floating-type biogas plant. The thermal efficiency of developed stove was approximately 60.01%. Emission of carbon dioxide during combustion was measured and approximately 150-180 ppm.

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Biogas for household use: the case of Nepal

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Municipal Solid Waste Management: Challenges and Opportunities in Nepal

Municipal Solid Waste Management: Challenges and Opportunities in Nepal

Improved Biogas Stove with Scrubbing Unit for Household Use

Development of domestic biogas stove

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