Fuelwood is the predominant source of energy for rural populations in Nigeria. As the population grows, increasing depletion of forests has resulted in reductions in the energy available for cooking, shortages of wood for manufacturing and an ecological hazard due to the southward encroachment...

About 66% of timber ends up as residues, which have been considered to be a waste material. We have studied wood-residue conversion to fuel. Wood residue has the same chemical and physical properties as wood with an energy value of about 0.55 of that of coal per unit mass.

This study evaluated the cooking energy costs and efficiencies, the air pollution impacts of cooking energy consumption and the impact of the energy policy in the cooking energy sector in Nigeria. Water boiling and cooking experiments using the common cooking energy sources (fuel wood, kerosene,...