Fuels from waste for energy source diversification

Energy from Fossil Fuels.

Improving Energy Security in Pacific Asia: Diversification and Risk Reduction for Fossil and Nuclear Fuels

Decentralized Energy from Waste Systems

In the last five years or so, biofuels have been given notable consideration worldwide as an alternative to fossil fuels, due to their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by partial replacement of oil as a transport fuel. The production of biofuels using a sustainable approach, should consider local production of biofuels, obtained from local feedstocks and adapted to the socio-economi...

Briquetting agricultural waste as an energy source in Ghana

This article aims at providing biomass as an alternative to wood charcoal using in Ghana. Using agricultural wastes converted into charcoal briquettes to provide much needed source of cheap fuel that is cleaner in burning. It is also intended to create awareness of agricultural wastes briquettes technology in Ghana and to make use of the technology by small scale entrepreneurs. This paper also ...

Solid Waste as an Energy Source The GIPO Cycle

The subtitle of this paper may seem curious. It is un­ less one remembers that today no undertaking seems to have much impact unless it can be described by an acro­ nym. The one above is borrowed in part from the com­ puter business which has a vast collection of them. In that business they have a similar one "GIGO" which means "Garbage in, garbage out." Hopefully, the system to be described he...