Estudio del potencial impacto en la atmósfera por el uso masivo de pellets de Pinus ponderosa para calefacción doméstica en San Carlos de Bariloche.

Abstract

For the WHO, the main environmental risk to the health of the Latin American population is air pollution, a passive factor that causes one in nine deaths worldwide (Prüss-Ustün et al., 2016). This organization argues that air pollution is a product of human development resulting from the inefficient combustion of fossil fuels and biomass. In San Carlos de Bariloche, the lack of natural gas supply for part of the population is a problem that has persisted over the years. Furthermore, the city is characterized by large expanses of native forests and plantations with exotic species, from which large quantities of biomass could be extracted. This study studied the potential use of ponderosa pine as a bioenergy resource, in the form of pellets and chips in high-efficiency equipment, with the aim of providing a solution to the problems mentioned above.