Quantification and use of forest biomass residues in Maputo province, Mozambique》.pdf

b i o m a s s a n d b i o e n e r g y 3 3 ( 2 0 0 9 ) 1 2 2 1 – 1 2 2 8 A v a i l a b l e a t ww w. s c i e n c e d i r e c t . c o m h t t p : / / w w w . e l s e v i e r . c o m / l o c a t e / b i o m b i o e Quantification and use of forest biomass residues in Maputo province, Mozambique H. Vasco, M. Costa* ´ Mechanical Engineering Department, Institute Superior Tecnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Avenida Rovisco Paı´s, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This article describes a study on the quantification and use of forest biomass residues in Received 16 March 2008 Maputo province, in Mozambique. The study was performed based on information from Accepted 6 May 2009 the thematic cartography of soils of Maputo province, provided by the National Direction of Published online 12 June 2009 Forest and Land of Mozambique, and data for the forest growth rates available in the literature. It was estimated that the total production of forest biomass residues in Maputo Keywords: province is 1,233,412 ton/year, with a corresponding energy potential of 17,267,771 GJ/year. Forest residues As a way of making the forest biomass residues profitable, the present work proposes the Energy potential use of part of the residues as fuel in new power plants to be build in Maputo province. In Maputo province this part of the s