The impact of power supplied by the ethanol reformer and fuel cell : a scenary for promotion of the social and environmental development of the community of "Pico do Amor"/ MT / O impacto da energia eletrica proveniente do reformador de etanol e celula a combustivel : cenario para a promoção do desenvolvimento socioambiental da comunidade "Pico do Amor"/MT

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The energetical planning of isolated communities has been trying to attend only the residential electrical energy demand. However, taking into account the family financial low level, this population characteristic, it is believed that the electrical energy should be directed for other specific goals: the execution of productive activities to promote the social and economical development of these communities. Some of R&D projects have been trying to achieve this objective, like "Electrical Energy Generation From Ethanol and Fuel Cell Reformer in the Isolated System of Mato Grosso", developed by UNICAMP, UFMT and ELETRONORTE, in which was done the installation of a generation system composed of an ethanol - fuel cell reformer in "Pico do Amor" community in Mato Grosso state. This work has the objective to analyze the impact of the cost of this electrical energy in the family income considering the development of two productive activities selected by the community itself: the production and marketing of cassava flour and "rapadura", a typical brazilian candy. The community energy demand was analyzed to achieve the results; estimated the energy cost from the implemented system and the money from the selling of the cassava flour and "rapadura" produced with this electricity; the study of sensibility of the ethanol price in the electrical energy cost was done too, and the cassava flour and "rapadura" in the family funds. From the results, it was verified that the electrical energy cost has a 16,4% impact in the family gross income and a net value around R$ 260,85/family, indicating that the community will have enough funds to pay for the energy and also will rise the amount of money for each family. Besides, the comparative analyze of the cost of the electricity from the ethanol/fuel cell reformer and photovoltaic systems shows that, considering only the maintenance and operation costs, the first one should be more attractive than the second one

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community alcool celulas a combustivel fuel cells ethanol desenvolvimento economico - aspectos ambientais economic development desenvolvimento economico - aspectos sociais comunidades ecodevelopment

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