The Use of Agricultural Wastes as Renewable Energy Resources: A Review (original) (raw)
2023, OKEY Stephen Nnaemeka
The expansion of agricultural production has naturally resulted in increased quantities of livestock wastes, agricultural crop residues and agro-industrial by-products. A review on agricultural wastes such as palm oil and other wastes is desirable because of their contribution to environmental degradation and the need to convert them to value-added products such as renewable energy to mitigate their impacts. This paper seeks to review available renewable biomass resources which can enable developing countries including Nigeria to overcome her present energy challenges. The palm oil industry generates a large quantity of wastes which makes their disposal a challenging task. Apart from few isolated cases where palm kernel shell (PKS) and palm fruit fibre serve as source of fuel in cooking, they are usually dumped in the open field and water ponds which impact negatively on the environment. Renewable energy produced from agricultural wastes will add to the national grid in view of the exhausting nature of fossil fuel resources coupled with its challenges of environmental degradations.
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