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A proposal of electrical power supply to Brazilian Amazon remote communities

2010; Elsevier BV; Volume: 34; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.biombioe.2010.04.004

1873-2909

Ana Rosa Carriço de Lima Montenegro Duarte, Ubiratan Holanda Bezerra, Maria Emília de Lima Tostes, André Montenegro Duarte, Geraldo Narciso da Rocha Filho,

Oil Palm Production and Sustainability

This paper focuses on supplying electrical power for remote communities of the Brazilian Amazon using regional biomass, specifically palm oil biomass, as a primary energy source. The use of Straight Vegetable Oil (SVO) as fuel, is indicated for isolated communities, where the hydro plants or the installation of transmissions line are impracticable. The use of vegetable oils produced in the communities, is a solution when an adequate infrastructure to extracting the oil is available. Brazil is able to use an enormous diversity of vegetable oils, due to a great variety of plants, and the favorable climatic conditions. Technical, economic, environmental and social aspects are analyzed in order to provide a basis for electrical power supply viability in these communities. A case study is presented focused on a typical Brazilian Amazon community located in the State of Para in order to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed viability strategy.