TY - JOUR
T1 - Techno-economic analysis of a biogas driven poly-generation system for postharvest loss reduction in a Sub-Saharan African rural community
AU - Lamidi, Rasaq O.
AU - Jiang, L.
AU - Wang, Y. D.
AU - Pathare, Pankaj B.
AU - Roskilly, A. P.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank Nigeria's Petroleum Technology Development Fund for sponsoring this project. Also, this study was partly supported by Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC), UK (RE4Food project-EP/L002531/1); and EPSRC Global Challenges Research Fund Institutional Sponsorship Award 2016 – Institutional Sponsorship Funding, ‘Preparing for GCRF Award: Optimisation of different solar dryers used in Sub-Saharan Africa using computational fluid dynamics (CFD)’. We are also grateful to N8 Research funded projects: “Feasibility study of renewable bio-energy agri-product dryer” and “Feasibility study of renewable bio-energy agri-product dryer - 2nd stage: Experimental study and optimisation”. Data supporting this publication is openly available under an ‘Open Data Commons Open Database License’. Please contact Newcastle Research Data Service at rdm@ncl.ac.uk for access instructions.
Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank Nigeria’s Petroleum Technology Development Fund for sponsoring this project. Also, this study was partly supported by Engineering and Physical Science Research Council ( EPSRC ), UK (RE4Food project -EP/L002531/1 ); and EPSRC Global Challenges Research Fund Institutional Sponsorship Award 2016 – Institutional Sponsorship Funding, ‘Preparing for GCRF Award: Optimisation of different solar dryers used in Sub-Saharan Africa using computational fluid dynamics (CFD)’. We are also grateful to N8 Research funded projects: “Feasibility study of renewable bio-energy agri-product dryer” and “Feasibility study of renewable bio-energy agri-product dryer - 2nd stage: Experimental study and optimisation”. Data supporting this publication is openly available under an ‘Open Data Commons Open Database License’. Please contact Newcastle Research Data Service at rdm@ncl.ac.uk for access instructions.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/9/15
Y1 - 2019/9/15
N2 - Sub-Saharan African region currently suffers from the lack of clean energy and heavy postharvest loss. Hence, a biogas driven combined cooling, heating and power generation system that harmonises power generation with food drying and cold storage is studied in the context of current renewable energy policies of the Nigerian government. Wastes from a community cattle market are assessed for biogas generation that is subsequently used to power a 72 kW internal combustion engine. Heat is recovered from the engine to drive a cabinet dryer, an absorption chiller and maintain anaerobic digestion process. The model is developed in Aspen Plus and the results are used to evaluate the economic viability of the system. The electricity and tri-generation efficiencies are 25.7% and 74.5%, respectively. Results also suggest that energy demand of 407 farmers can be met including drying of 12,190 kg of cassava, 3,985 kg of maize and cold-storage of 6,080 kg of tomato per farmer every year. At $0.05·kWh−1 of electricity, the discounted payback period varies between 2.5 and 4.7 years depending on agricultural product processed. Levelised cost of energy and profitability index are also sensitive to both interest rate and plant's availability which become uneconomical above 9% and below 80%, respectively.
AB - Sub-Saharan African region currently suffers from the lack of clean energy and heavy postharvest loss. Hence, a biogas driven combined cooling, heating and power generation system that harmonises power generation with food drying and cold storage is studied in the context of current renewable energy policies of the Nigerian government. Wastes from a community cattle market are assessed for biogas generation that is subsequently used to power a 72 kW internal combustion engine. Heat is recovered from the engine to drive a cabinet dryer, an absorption chiller and maintain anaerobic digestion process. The model is developed in Aspen Plus and the results are used to evaluate the economic viability of the system. The electricity and tri-generation efficiencies are 25.7% and 74.5%, respectively. Results also suggest that energy demand of 407 farmers can be met including drying of 12,190 kg of cassava, 3,985 kg of maize and cold-storage of 6,080 kg of tomato per farmer every year. At $0.05·kWh−1 of electricity, the discounted payback period varies between 2.5 and 4.7 years depending on agricultural product processed. Levelised cost of energy and profitability index are also sensitive to both interest rate and plant's availability which become uneconomical above 9% and below 80%, respectively.
KW - Anaerobic digestion
KW - Poly-generation
KW - Post-harvest loss
KW - Techno-economic analysis
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U2 - 10.1016/j.enconman.2019.06.023
DO - 10.1016/j.enconman.2019.06.023
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067586303
SN - 0196-8904
VL - 196
SP - 591
EP - 604
JO - Energy Conversion and Management
JF - Energy Conversion and Management
ER -