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Solar treatment of biomass for power generation

The demand for universal access to clean modern energy supplies in Africa is high, but many areas are not connected to the grid and those that are suffer from frequent power disruption.
This video has been realised three years into the ACERA research that will help to overcome these contraints by using solar power to treat biomass for power generation of electricity through fuelling generators with biomass slurries. A mix of renewable energy production will be integrated with a hybrid system. Our target is to have the system fully functioning and ready for adoption and replication.

Our PhD student Opio Innocent Miria talks about the ACERA project and its objectives.

Biogas Technologies in Uganda

Biogas Technologies in Uganda: Operation, Maintenance, Challenges and Solutions

Biogas is often a recommended technology that turns waste into energy. However, the resourceful technology has not been completely embraced. In this video we take a look at how this technology operates, what are some of the challenges that you may experience in both operation and maintenance after which we show you some tips to overcome these problems.

Gasification Technologies in Uganda

Gasification in Uganda: How to Operate a GEK Gasifier, Operation and Maintenance

Biomass has been widely recognized as a clean and renewable energy source, with increasing potential to replace conventional fossil fuels in the energy market. The abundance of biomass ranks it as the third energy resource after oil and coal. Primarily, gasification is more advantageous because of the conversion of biomass into a combustible gas, making it a more efficient process than other thermochemical processes. In this video, we speak about operation of gasification technologies, some of the challenges and how to overcome them.

How do Gasification Technologies work?

How do Gasification Technologies work?

 

Climate Justice and Energy Access

This video has been produced by the CREEC team for the COP26 event “Climate Justice and Universal Energy Access: Insights from Africa”.

Climate Justice and Energy Access

Water Hyacinth and Biogas Digestors

Using Water Hyacinth to Improve the Performance of Biogas Digestors

Water hyacinth is a water weed that has affected many water bodies in Africa. This has affected fishing activities on lakes and the purity of water. Our project is investigating how we can use water hyacinth to improve the performance of biogas digesters.