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Survey of Energy Resources 2007

Bioenergy Country Notes

Argentina

Municipal solid waste
quantity of raw material available *	48	million tonnes
Sugar cane bagasse
quantity of raw material available	4.52	million tonnes
direct use from combustion	864	TJ
Forestry/wood processing
quantity of raw material available	0.54	million tonnes
direct use from combustion	53.89	TJ
Wood
quantity of raw material available	27.01	million tonnes
direct use from combustion	1 998	TJ
Agricultural residues **
quantity of raw material available	34.34	million tonnes
direct use from combustion	6.4	TJ
Industrial agricultural residues
quantity of raw material available	1.32	million tonnes
direct use from combustion	247.78	TJ
Cattle waste
quantity of raw material available	14.2	million tonnes

* Corresponding to the residues dumped in the Relleno Sanitario de Villa Domínico landfill site. A demonstration project operated between 1978 and January 2004. A total of 48 037 673 tonnes of solid urban residues were accumulated in 25 years from the Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires and the districts of Berazategui, Avellaneda, Quilmes, Almirante Brown, Florencio Varela, Lanús and Lomas de Zamora. The landfill generates some 195 million m³ of biogas (50% methane) which partly generates electricity for on site use; the remainder is flared.

** Including all residues from soybean, maize, wheat, sorghum, rice and cotton.