Marvellous-Udoye/biovolt

BioVolt is a climate and sustainability tech platform designed to address the critical urban waste and energy supply gap in Nigeria. BioVolt connects waste generators with collection logistics, recycling partners, and micro-biodigesters to convert sorted organic waste into renewable electrical energy. # BioVolt **BioVolt** is a climate and sustainability tech platform designed to address the critical urban waste and energy supply gap in Lagos, Nigeria. By acting as an asset-light, coordinate-and-routing digital layer, BioVolt connects waste generators (households, markets, estates) with collection logistics, recycling partners, and micro-biodigesters to convert sorted organic waste into renewable electrical energy. --- ## The Problem * **Lagos Waste Crisis**: Lagos generates over **14,000 tonnes** of municipal solid waste daily. Due to lack of sorting at source, organic material, recyclable plastics, and residuals are mixed together, making recycling and recovery extremely inefficient. * **Methane Emissions**: Rotting organic waste in open landfills releases large volumes of methane ($CH_4$), a greenhouse gas over 25x more potent than $CO_2$ at trapping atmospheric heat. * **The Energy Supply Gap**: Persistent grid interruptions (NEPA/PHCN outages) force communities and businesses to rely on expensive, polluting diesel generators. --- ## The Solution BioVolt bridges this coordination gap with a digital routing and calculation ecosystem: 1. **Asset-Light Orchestration**: Instead of owning recycling plants or biodigesters, BioVolt acts as the logistics and data connector (the "Uber of waste-to-value"). 2. **Dynamic Waste Routing**: * **Organics**: Routed to micro-biodigesters for anaerobic digestion to produce biogas. * **Plastics & Recyclables**: Handled by washing/melting processes and sent to recovery partners. * **Residuals**: Monitored and targeted for minimization. 3. **Estimation Engine**: Allows users to input organic feedstock types (food scraps, manure, agricultural waste) and retrieve live, verified projections of energy yield. --- ## Scientific Assumptions & Formulas The estimation engine runs on established biological midpoint assumptions validated through OpenModelica ADM1 simulations: * **Biochemical Methane Potential (BMP)**: * **Food waste* …