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Biomass Resources Potentials in Bangladesh :

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Land and Forest Area of Bangladesh ( Most important and details data on Land use and Forest,   provided by Forest Department of Bangladesh)

Depletion of Tropical Forests with Particular Reference to Bangladesh

Energy consumption in Bangladesh  - Data source based  on a survey, mainly on households, have been conducted in 2003 on 2391 households in four divisions of the country - Prepared by Bangladesh Institutes of Development Studies (BIDS)

Promotion of Biogas Production and Use in Commercial Establishment by GTZ-PURE/Power Cell/Sustainable Energy Unit (SEU)

Woodfuel in Bangladesh - Production and Marketing

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions   by Promoting Bioenergy Technologies for Heat Applications .  Country Report Bioenergy Study-Bangladesh , January 2006

Jatropha cultivation and oil Extraction – A case study in Bangladesh Agricultural University Farm, Md. Daulat Hussain1and Md. Parvez Islam2, 1Professor and 2Lecturer, Department of Farm Power and Machinery, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202.

Proposal on Jatropha model farm and business plantation farm for seed and oil production in Bangladesh By a Jatropha plantation group (Team  leader: PROF. DR. MD. DAULAT HUSSAIN, BAU), BANGLADESH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY (BAU) DEPARTMENT OF FARM POWER AND MACHINERY, MYMENSINFGH-2202, BANGLADESH

PREGA report on Joypurhat ( Sugar Mill) Bagasse Cogeneration Project (JBCP) - A CDM Project Design Document,  Prepared by the PREGA National Technical Experts team from the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS).

Proceedings of the National Seminar on Renewable Energy - Focus on Bio Energy

Presentation on Bio-energy Status in Bangladesh ( Briefly)

Green Energy Development Model in the St. Martin’s Island at Bay of Bengal

Implementation Plan -National Domestic Biogas and Manure Programme in Bangladesh (Click here)

Feasibility of a national programme on domestic biogas in Bangladesh - Final report

Promotion of Biogas Production and Use in Commercial Establishment by GTZ-PURE/Power Cell/Sustainable Energy Unit (SEU)  

Biogas Programs in Bangladesh: A Solution To Growing Fuel Crisis in Rural Households

BIOMASS AND ENERGY POTENTIALS OF SELECTED AGRICULTURAL CROPS

BIO-ENERGY - by RERC, Dhaka University, Bangladesh

Biomass and Bioenergy:  Developments and Potentials - by B. K. Bala, Department of Farm Power & Machinery Bangladesh Agricultural University Mymensingh -2202, Bangladesh

Overview of the Renewable Energy Sector in Bangladesh

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGIES: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Feasibility of a national programme on domestic biogas in Bangladesh - Final report

Mobilizing the Market for Biogas technology [pdf 519.97 kb ]

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (SEDEC) - under implementation / Proposed . Please click here

Assessment of present status of LPG systems and its market potential in Bangladesh

Improve Cook stoves programme

Biomass Gasification Programme

Biomass Briquetting Programme in Bangladesh

Biogas Technology  by BCSIR/GTZ & Improved Coock Stoves by BCSIR/GTZ

Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) Foundation

Wood-based energy sytems for Rural Industries and Village Applications

Download the RWEDP Wood Energy Database    for use with Microsoft Access 97 (1,279 KB)

Download the RWEDP Wood Energy Database  for use with Microsoft Access XP (1,078 KB)

Biomass Briquetting: Technology and Practices Field Document No.46, April 1996

Wood Energy Situation Bangladesh

 

 

 

 

 

Biomass in the most significant energy source in Bangladesh which accounts for 70% of the total final energy consumption in Bangladesh [Islam 2000]. The main sources of biomass fuels are – 

  • Trees (woodfuels, twigs, leaves, plant residues)

  • Agricultural Residues (paddy husk, bran, bagasse, jute stick etc.) and

  • Livestock (animal dung). 

Land use pattern and different biomass fuels of Bangladesh are described below in separate subsections. 

 

Land Use Pattern 

 

Approximate land use pattern of the country is : 

 

  • Agricultural land : 64 %

  • Forests : 18 %

  • Human Settlement : 8 %

  • Water and other : 10 %

Different types of land pattern and forests with approximate percentage are shown in Table 5.1 and remote sensing image map of Bangladesh showing the land use patterns can be found at   

Land Use Pattern of Bangladesh, Base 1996 [FRA, 2000] 

 

Total area (’000 ha)

 

 

 

Land area

 

Inland water

 

Forest

 

Other land

 

Closed

Plantation

Shrubs/Trees

Forest Fallow

720 (5%)

232 (1.6%)

105 (0.7%)

17 (0.1%)

11,943 (82.9%)

1,383 (9.6%)

 

Wood fuel :

 

Total wood fuel consumption of the country is 8 million m3 where domestic cooking accounts for estimated 5.1 million m3 (63%) annually and the industrial and commercial sectors 2.9 million m3 annually(37%). Overall, tree and fuels provide 48%, agriculture residues 36%, dung 13% and Peat 3% [FMP, 1992]. Though it is commonly thought that reserve forests are the main source of wood fuel in the country, but from statistics it has been found that village forests are supplying 84% of total consumption which has been shown is Figure 5.2 along with other sources. At present there is acute shortages of wood fuel in Bangladesh, due to which poor people opt for other inferior type (not compact, difficult to handle) of biomasses like agricultural residues or animal dung. The future projection of demand and supply of wood fuel by Forestry Master Plan (FMP) 1993 is bleak which is shown in

Table :

 Wood fuel demand-supply projections up to 2013 (in 1000 m3 per annum) 

 

Year

1993

1998

2003

2008

2013

Estimated demand

8272

9045

9847

10682

11553

Estimated supply

6135

6450

6787

7212

7742

Balance