onstove.Biogas.available_biogas

Biogas.available_biogas(model: onstove.OnStove)

Calculates the biogas production potential in liters per day. It currently takes into account 6 categories of livestock (cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig and poultry). The biogas potential for each category is determined following the methodology outlined by Lohani et al.[Rb80e8c4ad615-1]_ This function also applies a restriction to biogas production in urban areas, areas with temperature lower than 10 degrees[Rb80e8c4ad615-1]_ celsius and areas experiencing water stress[Rb80e8c4ad615-2]_. The function does not return anything but creates a column in the main dataframe for total biogas energy available in every settlement.

Parameters:

model: OnStove model

Instance of the OnStove model containing the main data of the study case. See onstove.OnStove.

References

[1]

Lohani, S. P., Dhungana, B., Horn, H. & Khatiwada, D. Small-scale biogas technology and clean cooking fuel: Assessing the potential and links with SDGs in low-income countries – A case study of Nepal. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 46, 101301 (2021).

[2]

Bansal, V., Tumwesige, V. & Smith, J. U. Water for small-scale biogas digesters in sub-Saharan Africa. GCB Bioenergy 9, 339–357 (2017).