Research Article
Potential of Abattoir Waste for Bioenergy as Sustainable Management, Eastern Ethiopia, 2019
Table 5
Equivalence of estimated biogas with other fossil fuels from the selected abattoirs, 2019.
| | Name of abattoirs | Estimated biogas (m3) | Annual substitution of expensive fuels by utilization of biogas | | Liquefied gas (ton) | Kerosene (ton) | Charcoal (ton) | Furnace oil (ton) | Petrol (ton) | Diesel (ton) |
| | Harar | 11,891.61 | 5.355 | 7.140 | 41.648 | 4.760 | 8.330 | 5.950 | | Dire Dawa | 53,826.27 | 23.640 | 31.520 | 18.388 | 21.013 | 36.774 | 26.267 | | Haramaya | 10,189.25 | 3.050 | 4.067 | 23.725 | 2.711 | 4.745 | 3.389 | | HU-E | 9,263.87 | 4.052 | 5.403 | 31.516 | 3.602 | 6.303 | 4.502 | | Grand total | 85,139.20 | 36.097 | 48.130 | 280.758 | 32.087 | 56.152 | 40.108 |
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NB: unit for biogas is cubic meter, while unit for all fossil fuels is ton ( ). |
