Renewable Energies to Promote Local Development

Colombo, Emanuela; Masera, Diego; Bologna, Stefano

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-00284-2_1

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“…Moreover, the intensive use of biomass for cooking purposes increases the pressure on local deforestation and related soil degradation in many DCs . Exploiting other available and renewable energy resources at local level through appropriate designs of energy technologies seems a more sustainable solution …”

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Design and performance evaluation of solar cookers for developing countries: The case of Mutoyi, Burundi

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Summary Here, we propose an approach for supporting the design and performance evaluation phase of solar cooking technologies, to assess their eventual appropriateness for remote rural contexts, before proposing them for local field tests. The approach is based on (1) local context description and analysis, (2) design and construction of the solar cookers, and (3) thermodynamic performance evaluation. We used the approach to analyse 3 cookers for the area of Mutoyi, Burundi: a parabolic, a panel, and a box cooker. From phases 1 and 2, only panel and box cookers emerged as the technically viable solutions: They were sized, optimized, built, and tested. In phase 3, the thermodynamic evaluation indicated that the box cooker is inappropriate, since water does not reach high enough temperature. Instead, the panel cooker shows a Standardized Cooking Power of 46.85 W and a stagnation temperature higher than 75°C, which is able to bring the water to the boil when the environmental temperature is higher than 25°C. The thermal efficiency of the cooker resulted equal to 8.13%, while the mean integral temperature Tm remained around 60°C for all the lab test replicates, higher than the minimum internal temperature to cook legumes. The results of the procedure applied to the case study indicate that the panel cooker can be proposed for local field tests with local food and cooking practices, for assessing its final appropriateness on the field.

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Design and performance evaluation of solar cookers for developing countries: The case of Mutoyi, Burundi

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“…-Fortunately, Distributed Renewable Energies systems (DREs) are being increasingly documented as vital catalysts for achieving universal and equitable access to energy services and to society-wide social and economic development by ensuring universal education, healthcare and sustainable agriculture, by creating green jobs and by promoting equity throughout society (Colombo et al 2013). In other terms, widespread implementation of DRE in low and middle-income contexts represents a paradigm shift needed in the energy sector at the global level (Sustainable Energy for All 2011; Vezzoli, 2010;Rifkin, 2011).…”

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“…The project is funded by the European Union (EU) (2013-2016 and involves four African and three European universities 1 offering design-specific programmes of study.…”

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Sustainable Product-Service System Design applied to Distributed Renewable Energy fostering the goal of sustainable energy for all

Vezzoli

Ceschin

Diehl

2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…In this regard, this paper argues that the availability of energy will have a reverberating effect on productivity, health, education, climate change, food security and communication services (Colombo et al 2013). Accordingly, access to sustainable energy can increase selfsufficiency, power and interdependency to individuals and local communities in a process of resource democratisation and inequality reduction (Rifkin 2011;Vezzoli 2010).…”

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System Design for Sustainable Energy for all. A new challenging role for design to foster sustainable development

Vezzoli¹,

Delfino²,

Ambole

2014

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This paper argues that Product-Service System Design for Sustainability applied to Distributed Renewable Energy DRE) is a promising approach to help achieve the goal of 'Sustainable energy for all' (United Nation). Firstly, two understandings are presented: 1) Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) is a key leverage for sustainable development and; 2) Product-Service System (PSS) is a promising model for sustainable development. Based on those understandings two consequent research hypotheses are presented: 1) S.PSS is a promising model for DRE and is particularly relevant for the distributed and informal economies in low-middle income (all) contexts; 2) (Product-Service) System Design for Sustainable energy for all is a new challenging role for design. The recently awarded LeNSes (Learning Network on Sustainable energy system) EU project (bi-regional with Africa) is based on these hypotheses and it is introduced in terms of its aims and expected results, i.e. to deepen and diffuse the knowledge-base and know-how of system design for sustainable energy for all. Finally, two best practices of DRE-based S.PSS are described, one is the recently awarded (2014 International Ashden) project 'M-POWER Off-grid electric services in Arusha, Tanzania' and the second is the pilot implementation of the 'Sunride sustainable mobility system in Cape Town'

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Renewable Energies to Promote Local Development

Cited by 17 publications

References 37 publications

Design and performance evaluation of solar cookers for developing countries: The case of Mutoyi, Burundi

Design and performance evaluation of solar cookers for developing countries: The case of Mutoyi, Burundi

Sustainable Product-Service System Design applied to Distributed Renewable Energy fostering the goal of sustainable energy for all

System Design for Sustainable Energy for all. A new challenging role for design to foster sustainable development

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