Energy & CivilizationStudent Project Showcase: Fall 2021

Group Members

Monique Savner, Blathnaid Heaney, Yasmin Barerra

Problem Identification Video

Project Report

Executive Summary

Pollution and municipal solid waste are pressing challenges the world has been working to solve for quite some time. The aim of this paper is to discuss these topics as they relate to the Arab Republic of Egypt, offering insight into a possible solution with a multitude of benefits. The implementation of household biogas digesters and, later, biomass gasification microgrid systems in rural villages throughout Egypt would serve to not only mitigate some of the growing problems due to poorly managed livestock manure, agricultural waste, and municipal solid waste -- an issue with documented environmental and health consequences -- but provides potential benefits of sustainable, dependable electricity sources as well as economic benefits in the form of job creation, cheaper electricity, and natural fertilizer byproducts.

Final Paper: Biogas: A Proposal to Rural Egypt’s Energy Crossroads