Análisis energético de la biomasa en Michoacán: Con caso de estudio para generación eléctrica de 4MWh

Abstract

The energy reform promotes the use of renewable energies to face the reduction of fossil energy consumption. Michoacán is a state where agriculture proliferates, counting on a diversity of climates that favors the cultivation of a significant variety of fruits, in addition that its harvest area is abundant. On many occasions the waste generated from the harvest represents a problem for the farmers, because the volume is too much and they do not know what to do, unfortunately they opt by the illegal burning. However, biomass can be used as fuel with high thermal outputs, with a lower cost than other fuels, which represents an alternative for many industries that require combustion in their processes. Michoacán stands out continuously at the first places in the production of diverse fruts at national level, but its residues are used only for cattle consumption, so this research work not only takes into account the net harvest, it also makes an estimate of effective waste that can be considered biomass available for use in thermal processes, indicating according to its calorific value the energy potential wasted until the moment.