Determination of Biomass Potential of Muş Province

Year 2024, Volume: 13 Issue: 4, 939 - 949, 31.12.2024

Okan Aktan Ömer Arslan

https://doi.org/10.17798/bitlisfen.1472913

Abstract

Fossil resources currently supply the majority of the world's energy needs. Even if fossil fuel sources are gradually depleted, the need for energy will continue due to population increases and the widespread use of life-improving technology. Biomass is one of these unique and sustainable energy sources. Anywhere there is life- human, animal, or plant-biomass may be a clean, readily available, and sustainable energy source. Furthermore, Türkiye, which depends on foreign energy and should reduce its carbon footprint, must benefit from this energy source to the maximum extent. Since the city of Muş has an economy based on agriculture and animal husbandry, it is a province with high biomass potential. Therefore, it was chosen as the subject of this study. Furthermore, with this study, the biomass potential of Muş province was tried to be determined for the first time in the literature. The theoretical annual amount of energy obtained from plant, animal, forest, and municipal waste in Muş province is 222,066.3 TOE. However, the economically realizable amount of the theoretical potential was calculated to be 8935.20 TOE. It has been estimated that this economical biomass energy can meet 27.15% of the city's electricity consumption. This contributes significantly to the socio-economically underdeveloped city economy and provides the utilization of waste that would harm the city's environment.

Keywords

Renewable Energy, Muş, Biomass, Animal Waste, Vegetable Waste, Domestic Waste

Ethical Statement

The study complies with research and publication ethics.

Thanks

This article is based on the master's thesis of Okan Aktan, titled "Biomass Potential of Muş Province." The research was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Ömer Arslan at the Mus Alparslan University Institute of Science, within the Department of Nuclear Energy and Energy Systems, in Muş, Türkiye, in the year 2023.

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