Open AccessCan biogas, generated from cattle waste reduce negative externalities? A case of study in argentina
Author(s) -
Gabriela Cristiano,
Claudia Buitrago
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
semestre económico/semestre economico
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2248-4345
pISSN - 0120-6346
DOI - 10.22395/seec.v23n54a7
Subject(s) - biogas , externality , renewable energy , biomass (ecology) , agrarian society , work (physics) , natural resource economics , waste management , electricity , business , environmental science , agricultural economics , environmental economics , economics , engineering , agriculture , microeconomics , geography , agronomy , mechanical engineering , electrical engineering , archaeology , biology
Lately, Argentina has been promoting renewable energies by implementing several programs. Agroindustrialactivities generate organic waste, which could be treated to mitigate the negative externalities it causes. In this work the results proposed regarding the volume of biogas generation from waste were estimated for a firm in the Corfo region in the province of Buenos Aires. We present an alternative to reduce negative externalities and improve environment through the transformation of biomass into caloric energy, considering the case of a multiproduct firm, in which waste can be the input to produce a new output (biogas and biofertilizer). We determined that, from the effluent generated by 500 heads of cattle, it is possible to obtain 10.125 m3 of biogas/ month, which could be sold or used by the agrarian firm for self-consumption, diminishing its costs.