The Potential of Biomass and Animal Waste of Turkey and the Possibilities of These as Fuel in Thermal Generating Stations

• Published in: Energy sources Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 339 - 345
• Main Author: Mustafa Acaroglu, Ali Semi Aksoy, Huseyin Ogut
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia, PA Informa UK Ltd 1999; Taylor & Francis
• Subjects: Agricultural Residues Animal Waste Biomass Energy Thermal Generating Stations Turkey; Agricultural wastes; Applied sciences; Biomass; Electric power generation; Energy; Energy utilization; Environmental impact; Exact sciences and technology; Lignite; Natural energy; Plants (botany); Solid wastes; Asia; Turkey; Alternative fuel; Biomass; Animal waste; Thermal power plant; Environment impact; Vegetal waste
• ISSN: 0090-8312; 1521-0510
• DOI: 10.1080/00908319950014821

In this study, the potential of important biomass energy sources and animal solid wastes of Turkey were determined and the potential of these as a source of fuel in thermal generating stations to produce electricity was studied. The effects of biomass and lignite coal usage on the environment were reported comparatively. Considering total cereal products and fattyseed plants, approximately 50 65 million tons per year of biomass and 11,051 million tons of solid matter animal waste are produced, and 60 % of biomass is seen as possible to use for energy. The primary energy of applicable biomass was evaluated as 467 623 Peta Joule (PJ) and the energy of animal residues as 50,172 PJ. This amount of energy is equal to 22 27% of Turkey's annual primary energy consumption, (6,308 million tons of oil equivalent).