Assessment of Charcoal Production Processes and the Environment Impact in Kaduna, Nigeria

摘要

Charcoal is mostly pure carbon known as char that is been produced by cooking of woods in low oxygen environment which takes some days and burns some volatile compounds like water, methane, hydrogen and tar, but when been produced in commercial quantities this burning takes place in large hole, concrete, bricks and steel silos with little oxygen's and its been stopped halfway to avoid over burning that will turn it to ash. It contains black lumps and powder with about 25% of the original weight. This charcoals is been produced for commercial and domestic purposes like cooking and industrial uses. Production processes starts with cutting down of trees, cutting them into trunk parts and transporting it to the charcoal production site for the burning process that takes days and excess tree cutting without reforestation program causes deforestation which contributes to carbon dioxide accumulation in the atmosphere, for trees absolves carbon dioxide CO_2 and gives out oxygen and when there is excess carbon as a result of human and other factors with less trees to absolve them, more carbon dioxide will be trapped in the atmosphere causes warming that can forces climate change which creates extreme weather conditions like drought, melting of ice, excess rainfalls and others. This study recommends that proper awareness, monitoring should be implemented on all charcoal production sites and government should improve on some few basic amenities to substitute usage of charcoals like electricity and gas, with a proper afforestation program to protect these depleted forests reserves.