Waste Management; A Potential Source Of Job Creation In Nigeria.

Over the years, waste management has never been embraced in a civilized way in Nigeria. The Nigerian government both past and present has never employed facilities to promote a favourable and level playing ground for prospective investors. Apart from keeping the nation clean, waste collection or management is a viable business opportunity for any investor.

Waste management has the potential to create at least 5,000 job opportunities in each state - this ranges from the collection of the waste, its transportation to various collection point, the recycling and the marketing of its end product. In addition, waste management can be a source of foreign investment earner for Nigeria if installed properly. It could also be a major provider of power and fuel for cars in any given state.

How waste in Aba, Abia State of Nigeria can create steady power supply, boost revenue and create more job opportunities in it alone.

Waste management has been a great challenge in Nigeria, the Western African most populous nation; waste management is over a trillion dollar business global. It's benefits cannot be over emphasized - Waste management can be the process of creating energy in the form of electricity or heat from the incineration of waste source. Waste management can also be a form of energy recovery. Innovation involve in waste management produces electricity directly through combustion, or produce a combustible fuel commodity, such as methane, methanol, ethanol or synthetic fuels.

E.coli bacteria that eats switchgrass to make fuel

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have engineered the first strains of e.coli bacteria that can digest switchgrass biomass and synthesize its sugars into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. And all without having to add expensive enzyme additives.

Chemical giant BASF invests in biomass-to-sugar startup

BASF, one of the world’s biggest chemical companies, has invested $30 million in biomass-to-sugar startup Renmatix. BASF’s investment was part of a $50 million round of funding that included existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Extracting Bio Crude From Algae And Other Biomass Through Hydro-thermal Liquefaction.

There are a lot of process involve in the extraction of  bio crude from algae; these process became when the idea of obtaining a high oil content from the feed stock or biomass present.

Algae provide many potential routes for the conversion into biofuels, including hydrothermal liquefaction. During hydrothermal liquefaction, high moisture biomass is subjected to elevated temperatures (250-350 deg C) and pressures (10-20 MPa) in order to break down and reform the chemical building blocks into a bio-crude oil. [University of Illinois, Dept. of Agriculture]

Ethanol from Algae

Algae have a tendency to have a much different makeup than does most feedstocks used in ethanol, such as corn and sugar cane. Ethanol from algae is possible by converting the starch (the storage component) and Cellulose (the cell wall component). Put simply, lipids in algae oil can be made into bio-diesel, while the carbohydrates can be converted to ethanol.