Track: Waste Management

Abstract

This paper gives some preliminary results of systems analysis for ethanol production and utilization options as residue from sugar mills. Analyses are carried out for all production-chain, with a particular interest in scenarios in a middle and large time, where ethanol and hydrogen from biomass resources seem very promising. Peru has a great opportunity for using renewable sources biofuel in the public transport, energy demand in micro – small enterprises, specially converting traditional crops, like sugarcane, into ethanol to be blended with gasoline or used directly in internal combustion engines. Ethanol and sugarcane residues have the potential to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and the same time to diversifying and to give dynamical to the bioenergy sector.   We have identified a market niche in the public transport in Lambayeque, a small town at the north of Peru, where existing more than 30000 mototaxis (motorcycles adapted for transport of persons and loads) an economic way for public transport based upon gasoline. Lambayeque is an agricultural region characterized by sugarcane and rice production and where a new energy scenario could have a positive impact to extend the land base available for agricultural activities and to create new market for small rural farmers. These positive impacts in the dynamics of the rural economy could have a substantial role in reducing the traditional exodus to urban areas and could create more favorable conditions for investment in rural infrastructure, health, and education.