This document discusses biomass and biofuels as renewable sources of energy. Biomass is organic material from plants and animals that contains stored solar energy. It can be burned directly or converted to biofuels like biodiesel, bioethanol, or biogas. Biogas is produced through the anaerobic digestion of organic waste and is composed primarily of methane and carbon dioxide. The document discusses using the oil from jatropha trees grown in Egypt with treated wastewater to produce biofuels or biogas. It presents the idea of developing sustainable projects in remote desert areas of Egypt using jatropha oil as fuel.
4. Biomass is organic material that comes from plants and
animals, and it is a renewable source of energy.
Biomass contains stored energy from the sun. Plants absorb
the sun's energy in a process called photosynthesis. When
biomass is burned, the chemical energy in biomass is
released as heat. Biomass can be burned directly or
converted to liquid biofuels or biogas that can be burned as
fuels. Examples of biomass and their uses for energy:
- wood and wood processing wastes—burned to heat
buildings, to produce process heat in industry, and to
generate electricity
- agricultural crops and waste materials—burned as a fuel
or converted to liquid biofuels
- food, yard, and wood waste in garbage—burned to
generate electricity in power plants or converted to biogas
in landfills
- animal manure and human sewage—converted to biogas,
which can be burned as a fuel
6. Biofuel
Biofuel is fuel produced
from renewable biomass
material, commonly used
as an alternative, cleaner
fuel source to burning
fossil fuels. Biofuels are
low in carbon intensity so
they don't directly affect
global warming in fact, it is
suggested that biofuel
formulations can remove
materials like logging waste
and cooking oil from the
waste stream.
9. Biogas
Biogas is a type of biofuel that is naturally produced from the
decomposition of organic waste. When organic matter, such as
food scraps and animal waste, break down in an anaerobic
environment (an environment absent of oxygen) they release a
blend of gases, primarily methane and carbon dioxide. Because
this decomposition happens in an anaerobic environment, the
process of producing biogas is also known as anaerobic digestion.
14. 1-Production of biofuel of Jatropha tree oils: It is worth
noting that the success of the cultivation of jatropha trees in
several governorates in Egypt, including Al-Akmar, Sohag,
Wadi Al-Jadeed and Suez City, and irrigation of these trees
with treated sewage water. Based on the oil of these seeds,
and the use of sewage in the irrigation
2-Sustainable development projects can be carried out in
remote and desert areas of Egypt (after the successful
cultivation of Jatropha in desert areas and irrigation with
treated wastewater) and the use of seed oil without chemical
treatment as fuel in lighting, stoves, irrigation machinery and
agricultural machinery, Or the resulting oil for biogas
production plants.
Biofuel in Egypt