Abstract
The industrial sector in Burkina Faso faces two significant energy challenges access to efficient energy sources that are also renewable. Pyrolysis and gasification are emerging as conversion pathways that exploit available agricultural and industrial biomass. Pyrolysis has been adopted successfully, whereas gasification failed without getting beyond the experimental stage. This article assesses potential barriers to the adoption of gasification based on interviews with the stakeholders of the energy sector (users, NGOs, policy makers). We use pyrolysis as a benchmark to point out the barriers to adoption. The hierarchical analysis process (AHP) method was applied to identify the most significant barriers to the adoption of gasification. Twenty-seven barriers were identified and prioritized in two dimensions and five categories “technical”, “economic and financial”, “socio-cultural and organizational”, “political, governmental and institutional”, and “ecological and geographical” barriers. The category of socio-cultural and organizational barriers emerged as the most critical in the adoption of gasification. This category deserves special consideration to go past the pilot installation stage and adopting this technology.
Highlights
This paper aims to fill this gap by analyzing the main barriers to gasification adoption, using the success of pyrolysis as a benchmark to learn from its diffusion and adoption process
The hierarchical structure of the barriers was established by classifying them according to three levels of dimensions, categories and subcategories
These barriers were classified into five categories: technical, economic and financial, socio-cultural and organizational, governmental and institutional policy, and ecological and geographical barriers (Figure 1)
Summary
Biomass as a Source of Energy for Agro-Industry in Developing Countries. Fossil fuels are still the world’s most widely used energy source, accounting for more than 80% of primary energy consumption [1]. They are sources that emit large amount of CO2 , emission that has environmental impacts in terms of global warming [2]. With growing concerns about greenhouse gas emissions and climate change associated with the growing scarcity of fossil fuels, renewable energy sources are becoming essential for the world’s energy production [3,4]. Biomass is widely used in traditional industries and rural households in most developing countries [5].
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