Energy situation in Palestine - the prospect of agricultural residual biomass in energy marginalized areas

Anton Handal

Bachelor's thesis

Abstract:

The situation of energy in Palestine, is an embarrassing and sensitive situation where the Palestinians suffer from terrible conditions on the political and economic stages, where the Palestinian market is monopolised by the Israeli occupation for the fossil fuels plus, the Palestinians are supplied with electricity by the Israeli electricity companies, which led them to control the market and the reason behind the high prices of traditional energy sources, and its implications for energy prices, in addition to that weakness of the network infrastructure, accompanied by the increase of population growth in Palestine is one of the most important obstacles that can lead Palestinians to seek a solution to this problem by including renewable energy, which can play an important role in Palestine to reduce the sources of energy wasted from solar energy and wind, as well as the vital mass for the production of energy from agricultural waste, which could be the future solution for two important reasons, one for energy production and the other for disposal. The thesis describes the importance of agriculture especially olive cultivation which is one of the most important trees in Palestine of high value, here are some facts that define the calorific value of olive prunings vary between 16.7 and 19.8 MJ/kg,for olive stones 18.8 and 20.9 MJ/kg, for pomace 13.8 to 15.8 MJ/kg (García Martín et al 2020) and 13.39 to 15.90 MJ/kg (wafa 2021).

Keywords

State of Palestine, renewable energy, agricultural residues, energy dependency, biomass energy yield

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 6. 8. 2021

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedúci: doc. Bc. Ing. Tatiana Ivanova, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences

Bachelor programme / odbor:
Tropical Agriculture / International Cooperation in Agriculture and Rural Development