Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural

Abstract

ARAUJO, Paula Duarte, BERGAMINI, Cristiane Peres, ESTEVES, Gheisa Roberta Telles et al. Análise comparativa entre dois sistemas de geração de energia elétrica para a comunidade isolada do interior do Estado do Amazonas: célula A combustível com reformador para gás natural X gerador diesel. In Procedings of the 5th Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural, 2004, Campinas (SP) [online]. 2004 [cited 09 October 2024]. Available from: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000022004000100010&lng=en&nrm=iso> .

Although great part of the domestic territory is already supplied with electric energy, still there are many regions where the system is precarious or inexistent, generically called isolated communities. In the majority of the cases these communities are supplied with Diesel oil generators and the substitution of this fuel for available alternative energy in the localities has been object of study of some institutions of research spread throughout the country. Currently, the use of fuel cells has been strongly argued in the generation of electric energy associated with the local energy necessity, from the use of a regional fuel and this is due to the high efficiency of allied energy conversion to the low ambient impacts that this equipment offers. Most of the different types of fuel cells use hydrogen as a fuel to produce electricity, and it is extracted from renewable or non-renewable sources of energy. Then, the article has the objective of comparing in first analysis the energy efficiency and the cost between the two systems: the ones used currently in the great majority of the isolated communities, constituted of a Diesel engine-generator system, with Natural Gas Reformer System/ Purificador of Hydrogen/ Fuel Cell/ and to analyze if such project presents characteristics that qualifies it to get the carbon credits proposed in the Mechanism of Clean Development.