MASSELEC - Biomass supply potential study in Southern Côte d’Ivoire
Main goals
Identify, map, and quantify biomass deposits in Southern Côte d'Ivoire by collecting all available information from institutions, professional organizations, or any other relevant technical and financial organizations, on national production and processing of agricultural and forest materials.
Determine which agricultural and industrial residues have good energy potential and are available without competing with human food or soil fertility. Assess the impacts of current sectorial trends, national strategies and market variations on the availability of these deposits.
Specific objectives
SO1. Identify potentially recoverable agricultural and industrial residues for biomass, their conversion ratios (from literature and surveys with industry stakeholders), and their current (non-)use.
SO2. Map the available biomass deposits (industrial plantations, smallholder plantations, factories) in Southern Côte d'Ivoire.
SO3. Quantify the available biomass deposits within a logistically accessible distance from several potential implementation sites identified by the partner.
SO4. Analyse the current and future potential of the deposits, considering current sector trends, national strategies, and international market prospects.
SO5. Issue operational recommendations to allow the partner to refine the scope, both geographically and in terms of biomass sources, for their future feasibility studies.
Results
R1. The various residues are identified, along with their current use. Literature review and interviews with sector stakeholders provide conversion ratios for quantifying these deposits.
R2. A supply basin map, based on isochrones around potential implementation sites identified by the partner, is produced. This map determines the areas of plantations within a 4-hour drive from each point.
R3. The theoretical potential of each biomass deposit is calculated by volume, per isochrone around each potential implementation site.
R4. Scenarios for the evolution of deposits up to 2050 are produced based on current sector trends, national strategies, and global market data.
R5. For each deposit, opportunities and risks/threats are analysed, and an action plan to deepen the analysis is proposed.
Activities
A1. Literature review on the industrial sectors within the study scope and their potential for biomass valorisation.
A2. Production of isochrone maps and comparison with land use map and other relevant sources.
A3. Identification of key stakeholders in the relevant sectors (interprofessional organizations, institutions, industrialists, cooperatives, etc.) and interviews with them. Visits to plantations and factories.
A4. Based on data collection, volume of available industrial residues by isochrone.
A5. Assessment of competing uses for the identified residues and the environmental impacts of their valorisation as energy.
Related people
Abel Dègnimon Sogbegnon
Holder of a Master's degree in energy and electrical engineering (2IE, Ouagadougou) and a Master's degree in Science and technology with a physics option (UAC, Benin). Abel joined the Nitidae team in 2020 on the Agrovalor project and subsequently worked on the Shea gets greener project. He has expertise in agri-food production processes, drying technologies and energy recovery from waste (biomass) thermally (Gasification/Pyrolysis) in West Africa. It works in close partnership with local workshops and entrepreneurs in a skills transfer approach.
Anne Meyer
Agroeconomist graduated from the Institut des Régions Chaudes (IRC) of the Institut Agro Montpellier and from EM LYON (MSc Management), she has been passionate about tropical agricultural value chains for more than twenty years. She has put her skills at the service of NGOs and cooperatives, but also of the FAO and the organic agri-food industry (Ecotone group). She joined the Nitidæ studies department in March 2024.
Jules-Dorgeles Gomeu
Holder of an engineering degree in management of mining, oil and energy activities, he brings his expertise in the coordination, implementation and monitoring of project activities implemented by Nitidae in the shea processing sectors, cassava and cashew nuts, with particular expertise in supporting cooperatives and agri-food industrial units. With significant experience in managing projects on the processing of cassava, shea and cashew nuts financed by national and international institutions such as FIRCA, USAID and AFD, the Rho Alpes Region, he enjoys an ability to effectively coordinate teams, manage administrative and financial aspects, as well as cultivate fruitful relationships with partners and stakeholders. His solid academic background in engineering and project management complements his profile, allowing him to approach complex challenges with a holistic and strategic approach."
Julia Artigas Sancho
Process engineer and holder of a European MsC in Renewable energies, she works on energy-related issues in African industry, since 2016. Process optimization and agri-waste-to-energy systems are her main expertise areas: appropriate technologies, training on operation and maintenance, biofuels…
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Etienne Duperron
Graduated of an agricultural engineering school (INP-ENSAT), he specialized in spatial information processing via the Master 2 in Geomatics Sciences in Environment and Planning (SIGMA) from the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès. After working for two years on forest degradation and reforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, he joined the team to provide support on processing, analysis and spatial modeling related to the development and sustainability of territories, mainly in Mozambique