Report on National Training of Trainers Course on Wood Energy
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RWEDP Report No.62, 2001
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The Center for Energy Studies (CES), Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal organized a4-days long "Training of Trainers Course on Wood Energy", for its faculty members. The FAO Regional Wood Energy Development Programme in Asia (RWEDP) provided the needed technical and financially to CES to host this training course in Kathmandu from 4-7 April 2001.
The course was first of its kind among the different training courses that were sponsored by RWEDP in its member countries in the past, since it was exclusively designed to suit the requirement of CES/IOE, by engineers for the future engineers, for creating a core group of human resources on sustainable wood energy utilization, who would later teach the courses on wood energy that would be integrated into the curriculum of a new master of science degree course on renewable engineering (MSREE) in CES/IOE, starting from fall semester of 2001.
All together 14 faculties, many of them from the CES/IOE and a few from other relevant training institutions, who has no-depth knowledge of sustainable wood energy utilization, particularly related to the policies of directly related sectors, and traditional and modern wood energy technologies that have been in use or are commercially available in international markets, had participated in the course. The course covered the important issues of sustainable wood energy utilization under seven broad headings: terminology, traditional biomass fuels, woodfuel resources, wood energy situation in RWEDP member countries, Woodfuel conversion technology, Co-generation, wood energy policy and planning.
| Table of contents | |
| Foreword | |
| Part I. | Summary of the Training Course |
| 1. | Background |
| Part II. | Technical Papers |
| 1. | Woodfuel Related Terminology, Energy Measurement and Definition |
| 2. | Wood Energy Policy Issues |
| 3. | General Introduction to Traditional Biomass Fuel |
| 4. | Regional Overview of Wood Energy and the Status of Wood Energy Education in Member Countries |
| 5. | Woodfuel Resources |
| 6. | Wood Energy Flow |
| 7. | Charcoal Production |
| 8. | Biomass Energy Technologies: Gasification |
| 9. | Wood Fuel Conversion Current Issues, Improved Technology and Applications: Dendro-Thermal Power |
| 10. | Principles of Improved Cookstove Design |
| 11. | Cogeneration: Prospects and Implementation in the New Millennium |
| 12. | The Role of Women in Conserving Wood Energy |
| 13. | Area Based Wood Energy Planning |
| 14. | Wood Energy Demand Forecast: Part 1 |
| 15. | Wood Energy Demand Forecast: Part 2 |
| 16. | Wood Energy Surveys |
| Part 1: | Introduction to Energy Surveys |
| Part 2: | Wood Energy Survey of the Household Sector |
| Part 3: | Wood Energy Surveys for the Informal Sector |
| Part 4: | Wood Energy Surveys in Industries and Enterprises |
| Part III. | Appendices |
| Appendix 1: | Carbonization of Biomass |
| Appendix 2: | Determination of Calorific Value of Different Types of Fuelwood |
| Appendix 3: | Testing the Efficiency of Cookstoves |
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