Determinación del potencial energético de la biomasa contenida en los residuos sólidos urbanos en el Amazonas Colombo-Brasileño

Abstract

The Colombian-Brazilian Amazon has a population of approximately 1,215,446 inhabitants in Colombia (DANE, 2018) and 18,142,207 in Brazil (IBGE, 2016), which in turn are the states with the largest surface area in neighboring countries (University Nacional de Colombia, 2019), this allows both territories to be favorable areas to promote the development of energy procurement based on raw materials that are available to them and are economically affordable, for example, urban solid waste (MSW). In Colombia, the predominant final disposal system is the sanitary landfill serving 78% of the nation's municipalities (Superintendency of Residential Public Services, 2017), and the percentage destined for recycling according to the Ministry of Environment is 8.6% (The Time, 2019), not to mention those that are not treated and end up on the ground or in rivers. Taking into account that at least 70% of the population of the Amazon in Colombia has electricity coverage (Porras, 2015) and according to figures from The Global Ecpnomy an average of 95.79% for Brazil (The Global Ecnonomy, 2017) the need to find alternative means of energy production that can be generated in the same area and that can simultaneously be distributed among the local population. Therefore, it is appropriate to delve into the energy generation capacity available in the sector and taking into account the current circumstances related to environmental sustainability, it is necessary to conceive a scheme that abandons habitual energy production and sets its sights on a sustainable model that at the Even if it does not affect the environment, therefore, it may be possible to incur in the development of unconventional energy sources that allow energy access to rural sectors, those that are located last in the distribution chain