بررسي اثرات اجتماعي و زيست محيطي استفاده از انرژي زيست توده

Evaluation of Social and Environment Effect of Using Biomass Energy

Biomass is one of the most important sources for clean and renewable energy. International studies show that potential of power generation from biomass has been equal of amount of electricity generated from all centralized sources in the world at 1993. This paper considers social and environmental effects of biomass energy utilization instead of fossil fuels. This study is performed in several sections: destruction of natural resources, emission of pollutants, creation of new job opportunities and public welfare. In each section, some of world experiences and statistics are mentioned. Estimated and calculated results for IRAN have been presented. In public welfare section, security cost in different Iranian energy consumption sections have been considered and resulted fuel savings due to biomass energy consumption, are mentioned in detail.