[en] The industrial sector in Burkina Faso faces two significant energy challenges access to
efficient energy sources that are also renewable. Pyrolysis and gasification are emerging as conversion pathways that exploit available agricultural and industrial biomass. Pyrolysis has been adopted successfully, whereas gasification failed without getting beyond the experimental stage. This article
assesses potential barriers to the adoption of gasification based on interviews with the stakeholders
of the energy sector (users, NGOs, policy makers). We use pyrolysis as a benchmark to point
out the barriers to adoption. The hierarchical analysis process (AHP) method was applied to
identify the most significant barriers to the adoption of gasification. Twenty-seven barriers were
identified and prioritized in two dimensions and five categories “technical”, “economic and financial”,
“socio-cultural and organizational”, “political, governmental and institutional”, and “ecological and
geographical” barriers. The category of socio-cultural and organizational barriers emerged as the
most critical in the adoption of gasification. This category deserves special consideration to go past
the pilot installation stage and adopting this technology.
Disciplines :
Energy
Author, co-author :
Barry, Fanta ; Université de Liège - ULiège > TERRA Research Centre
Sawadogo, Marie; International Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (Institute 2iE), Ouagadougou 01 BP 594, Burkina Faso > Laboratory of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (LabEREE)
Bologo/Traoré, Maïmouna
Ouédraogo, W.K.Igor; International Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (Institute 2iE), Ouagadougou 01 BP 594, Burkina Faso > Laboratory of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (LabEREE)
Dogot, Thomas ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département GxABT > Modélisation et développement
Language :
English
Title :
Key barriers to the adoption of biomass gasification in Burkina Faso
Publication date :
30 June 2021
Journal title :
Sustainability
eISSN :
2071-1050
Publisher :
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), Basel, Switzerland
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