Suitability of Anaerobic Digesters for West Africa:Nigeria as a Case Study
作者单位：Federal University of Technology University of Leeds
会议日期：2015年
学科分类：083002[工学-环境工程] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 080702[工学-热能工程] 08[工学] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 09[农学] 0903[农学-农业资源与环境]
关 键 词：Anaerobic digestion clean development mechanism landfill West Africa
摘 要：West Africa comprises 16 countries including *** Nigeria,there are two seasons;the dry season where midday temperature surpasses 38°C and rainy season with midday temperature as low as 12°*** losses are generated from every step of food and animal processing due to low technological *** West African countries have very high fraction of organic components in their waste stream(up to 56 percent) and are currently disposed of in dumpsites and in some cases uncontrolled *** average temperature,food and animal waste are major potentials for the anaerobic digester with energy *** economic appraisal of a dumpsite in Nigeria was carried out using the net present value(NPV) technique and adopting a shadow price of carbon of $10(1,557 naira).A negative NPV of $0.36million(56,107,144.33 naira) was *** a substantial portion of land can be reclaimed by adopting anaerobic digesters.