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Vol. 12 No. 3 (2025)

A review of appropriate use of agroforestry residues for biogas production and prospects

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.7449
Submitted
27 January 2025
Published
10-05-2025 — Updated on 26-07-2025
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Abstract

Making bioenergy from waste or residue is one of the innovative and valuable ways to use renewable resources in addition to wind and solar energy. Many poor countries can benefit from this as they attempt to address the enormous amounts of rubbish left in landfills. This waste could be liquid (oil and wastewater) or solid (food and agricultural and agroforestry wastes). These consist of waste or agroforestry residues, like tree stumps and leftover leaves from timber harvest. Its’ all produced via an agroforestry system. Waste has a detrimental impact on the ecosystem and, consequently, all living organisms. One solution to this waste issue is to use garbage as a resource to produce beneficial products like biogas using compressed bioenergy production equipment. In this work, bibliometric methodologies were employed to assess global research advancements in bioenergy production from garbage through the Scopus database and developments in bioenergy production from waste. This review study assumed that agroforestry waste may be an optimistic substrate for biogas production in developing countries due to its widespread availability. Compressed biogas production, among other alternatives, is a workable solution to the countrys’ current energy issues and is safe for the environment because it emits no pollutants.

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