Identificación de las fuentes potenciales de producción de biomasa presente en una granja agropecuaria en clima tropical

Abstract

The sustainable agricultural system must have ecological and environmental qualities, but the dependence on external resources and weak productive processes cause ecological and social crises. Given this, it is decided to focus on innovative designs of agroecosystems, by conserving biological diversity such as biomass with the properties of being a renewable energy and considered as the only renewable source available in a massive way. The different types of biomass are a vital resource, derived from agricultural, livestock, human and forestry activities whose conversion generates fuels and chemical products for energy and profitable purposes in their commercialization. Biomass has a significant economic potential unlike fossil fuels, in 2013 the CONELEC placed the sale price of biomass energy at $ 9.67 per kWh. In Ecuador there have been few studies on the availability of biomass, such as the study of its potential existence in the provinces of Los Ríos, Pichincha and El Oro; that requires updating subject contents in the country to be expanded in the future. The objective of the work was to identify the sources of biomass production of the Santa Inés farm of the UTMACH, it was developed by means of a bibliographic research of scientific articles and foundation of theoretical bases. The Santa Inés farm that has a semi-intensive production system from which sources of biomass are obtained, such as: Cow excrete, crops such as bananas, cocoa, short-cycle crops, pasture, wood; gardening and waste activities from the diner in liquid and solid state.