Journal of Fundamentals of Renewable Energy and Applications
Open Access
ISSN: 2090-4541
ISSN: 2090-4541
Wasim Haskiya
Keelings, Ireland
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Fundam Renewable Energy Appl
Farm��?s slurry and organic waste have been well known and used to generate energy for centuries due to their availability and low cost to process. On the other hand; in the past few decades the world economies have evolved enormously bringing in prosperity and adverse impact to the environment due to excess use of fossil energy and waste generated to generate electricity and run transport. To mitigate the already caused damage to the environment, mankind need to change behaviour and thinking towards conservation, which would path the way to renewable energy through waste to energy conversion. The objective of this presentation is to demonstrate the need for a greater application of waste to energy conversions, which would improve the environment in EU and less developed world cites by reducing GHG��?s emission and waste pollution, thus increasing energy security and portfolio. According to European commission, transport sector is the biggest energy consumer after electricity generation, and it counts for one fifth of the EU��?s total emissions of GHG��?s. Heavy-duty vehicles are responsible for about quarter of CO2 emissions, and 6% of the total EU emissions. Indeed, in the EU transport emission is the only major source of GHG��?s that are on the rise. In addition, in 2012 the EU-28 has generated over 2,514 million tonnes of waste between all economies, averaging 1.8 tonne a year per inhabitant, excluding mineral waste. On the other hand, to tackle such worrying figures of increase in demand for energy and the resulted waste generation; bioenergy: waste to energy conversion presents an opportunity to substitute current transport diesel and to be used as biogas for electricity generation. The benefits would be no landfilling, cleaner environment, heavy duty trucks would run on cleaner biogas, thus overall achieving a substantial reduction in GHG��?s and adding new jobs to struggling economies.
Email: wasim_haskiya@keelings.com