Dual electricity generation biogas-diesel in the community of Maguey, municipality of San Luis. Santiago de Cuba

The work was developed in the rural community Magueyal, Popular Council Chamarreta of the Municipality San Luis, Santiago de Cuba province, consisting of 198 inhabitants, distributed in 75 of these 64 homes have electricity, also has a primary school and a medical clinic family. Its main activity is livestock to be located in a place where the topography is very steep, leading to not develop infrastructure networks. The electricity was supplied by diesel engine MWM-DITER, Type: D 327-2 and the supply of electricity was only 4 hours a day; it was decided to take him to eight hours using biogas, thus saving fuel. For this purposes and with funding from an international project proceeded to construction of two biogas digesters 83.04 m3 and 91.26 m3 of total volume, respectively, with which the generator feeds two reducing diesel consumption by 75% and increasing the hours of supply electricity for 4-8 hours. (author)