• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Business and Economy
• 01 / 29 / 2012

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To prevent environmental damage caused by swine waste mass in Cuba will be constructed 100 biogas plants modern tubular, polyvinyl chloride (PVC).

These centers provide fuel, which supplement rural energy needs and prevent pathogenic microorganisms contained in the excreta and contaminate underground aquifers.

Roberto Sosa, director of the Center for Promotion and Development of Biogas in the Swine Research Institute, told reporters that each of the aforementioned facilities will enable the treatment of waste up to 150 pigs, and deliver gas to the home of producer and neighbors.

Sosa said that the provinces of Villa Clara, Sancti Spiritus, Ciego de Avila, Cienfuegos and Camaguey will benefit from an international collaboration in this field, aimed at boosting the development of Cuban and Caribbean peasantry, which also includes a technical assistance to Haiti.

Also a member of The National Biogas, one of 17 teams of Renewable Energy Directorate of the Ministry of Basic Industry, said that training started in 2011 to assess the microbiological producers and energy.

According to Ileana Pereda Reyes, director of the Center for Process Engineering, Higher Polytechnic Institute José Antonio Echeverría in Havana, PVC technology ensures greater resistance to mechanical shock and cracking.

Pereda Reyes recalled that the biogas is used in the production of electricity and gas, taking advantage of solid waste from landfills pigs, cattle, poultry, vegetables and humans.

Documents indicate that popular use was initiated by Third World countries, due to the need for cheap energy for cooking.

Today is widely used in industrialized nations such as Germany, Sweden and Italy, where the economic use as a renewable source, capable of reducing carbon dioxide emissions.