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    Determinación del potencial de generación eléctrica a partir de biomasa en el Ecuador
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2017) Serrano, José; Mejía, William; Ortiz, Juvenal; Sánchez, Andrea; Zalamea, Silvana
    Energy consumption worldwide has increased over the years to meet the needs of a society whose population is increasing. Ecuador is not exempt from this reality; its economy is largely dependent on fossil fuels. However, it is possible to lessen this dependence by considering the biomass from agricultural residues of crop production, among which, banana, rice, sugar cane and cocoa stand out as a potential sources of energy. In the present article, the potential of effective electric power generation of the residues coming from the mentioned crops was evaluated using a methodology that considers the estimation of the real availability of biomass, its low heating values and the overall yield of equivalent plant of technologies of Biomass energy conversion such as direct combustion DC, gasification coupled with gas turbine TGG, gasification with combined cycle CCG, and pyrolysis with combined cycle CCP. The results show that banana, with the largest amount of waste produced per year, has the greatest potential for electricity generation: 119.5 GWh through DC, 150,3 GWh through TGG, 201,2 GWh through CCG and 186.2 GWh by CCP.