Over 640 million people in Africa are expected to rely on solid-fuels for cooking by 2040. In Western Kenya, cooking inefficiently persists as a major cause of burden of disease due to household air pollution. Efficient biomass cooking is a local-based renewable energy solution to address this issue. The Life-Cycle Assessment tool Simapro 8.5 is applied for analyzing the environmental impact of four biomass cooking strategies for the Kisumu County, with analysis based on a previous energy modelling study, and literature and background data from the Ecoinvent and Agrifootprint databases applied to the region. A Business-As-Usual scenario (BAU) considers the trends in energy use until 2035. Transition scenarios to Improved Cookstoves (ICS), Pellet-fired Gasifier Stoves (PGS) and Biogas Stoves (BGS) consider the transition to wood-logs, biomass pellets and biogas, respectively. An Integrated (INT) scenario evaluates a mix of the ICS, PGS and BGS. In the BGS, the available biomass waste is sufficient to be upcycled and fulfill cooking demands by 2035. This scenario has the lowest impact on all impact categories analyzed followed by the PGS and INT. Further work should address a detailed socio-economic analysis of the analyzed scenarios. © 2020 by the authors.
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TI - Environmental sustainability of bioenergy strategies in western Kenya to address household air pollution
AU - Carvalho, R.L.
AU - Yadav, P.
AU - García-López, N.
AU - Lindgren, R.
AU - Nyberg, G.
AU - Diaz-Chavez, R.
AU - Kumar, Upadhyayula, V.K.
AU - Boman, C.
AU - Athanassiadis, D.
AB - Over 640 million people in Africa are expected to rely on solid-fuels for cooking by 2040. In Western Kenya, cooking inefficiently persists as a major cause of burden of disease due to household air pollution. Efficient biomass cooking is a local-based renewable energy solution to address this issue. The Life-Cycle Assessment tool Simapro 8.5 is applied for analyzing the environmental impact of four biomass cooking strategies for the Kisumu County, with analysis based on a previous energy modelling study, and literature and background data from the Ecoinvent and Agrifootprint databases applied to the region. A Business-As-Usual scenario (BAU) considers the trends in energy use until 2035. Transition scenarios to Improved Cookstoves (ICS), Pellet-fired Gasifier Stoves (PGS) and Biogas Stoves (BGS) consider the transition to wood-logs, biomass pellets and biogas, respectively. An Integrated (INT) scenario evaluates a mix of the ICS, PGS and BGS. In the BGS, the available biomass waste is sufficient to be upcycled and fulfill cooking demands by 2035. This scenario has the lowest impact on all impact categories analyzed followed by the PGS and INT. Further work should address a detailed socio-economic analysis of the analyzed scenarios. © 2020 by the authors.
PY - 2020
UR - https://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/23906/
DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/en13030719
KW - agroforestry, air pollution, bioenergy, energy policy, fuels, renewable energy, sustainable development
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%T Environmental sustainability of bioenergy strategies in western Kenya to address household air pollution
%A Carvalho, R.L.
%A Yadav, P.
%A García-López, N.
%A Lindgren, R.
%A Nyberg, G.
%A Diaz-Chavez, R.
%A Kumar, Upadhyayula, V.K.
%A Boman, C.
%A Athanassiadis, D.
%D 2020
%U https://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/23906/
%R https://doi.org/10.3390/en13030719
%X Over 640 million people in Africa are expected to rely on solid-fuels for cooking by 2040. In Western Kenya, cooking inefficiently persists as a major cause of burden of disease due to household air pollution. Efficient biomass cooking is a local-based renewable energy solution to address this issue. The Life-Cycle Assessment tool Simapro 8.5 is applied for analyzing the environmental impact of four biomass cooking strategies for the Kisumu County, with analysis based on a previous energy modelling study, and literature and background data from the Ecoinvent and Agrifootprint databases applied to the region. A Business-As-Usual scenario (BAU) considers the trends in energy use until 2035. Transition scenarios to Improved Cookstoves (ICS), Pellet-fired Gasifier Stoves (PGS) and Biogas Stoves (BGS) consider the transition to wood-logs, biomass pellets and biogas, respectively. An Integrated (INT) scenario evaluates a mix of the ICS, PGS and BGS. In the BGS, the available biomass waste is sufficient to be upcycled and fulfill cooking demands by 2035. This scenario has the lowest impact on all impact categories analyzed followed by the PGS and INT. Further work should address a detailed socio-economic analysis of the analyzed scenarios. © 2020 by the authors.
%K agroforestry
%K air pollution
%K bioenergy
%K energy policy
%K fuels
%K renewable energy
%K sustainable development
Publication year
2020
ISSN
1996-1073
Authors
Carvalho, R.L.; Yadav, P.; García-López, N.; Lindgren, R.; Nyberg, G.; Diaz-Chavez, R.; Kumar, Upadhyayula, V.K.; Boman, C.; Athanassiadis, D.
Language
English
Keywords
agroforestry, air pollution, bioenergy, energy policy, fuels, renewable energy, sustainable development
Source
Energies. 13(3): 719
Geographic
Kenya
