Biomass Power Plant Planning using Remote sensing and GIS 

M Hiloidhari

Department of Energy,Tezpur University,India

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Energy Demand

Cost

Supply

Petroleum

Coal

Gas

40 years

200 years

60 years

Future????

Emission

Rural power scenario in India

Every tenth village…..no electricity

Fluctuating voltage, power shortage …….day to day phenomena

Dependency on Kerosene

Poor quality light, health problems

Biomass: potential rural energy source

heat, electricity and fuels

Renewable, carbon neutral

35% primary energy in developing countries

Agricultural

Forest productsMunicipal organic waste

Animal manure

Aquatic plants

Rice straw

Wood chip

India generates 139 million tonnes surplus biomass annually

Biomass power potential 22000 MW

Installed 2300 MW

Biomass power in India

RSGIS in Bioenergy

Spatial and temporal mapping of biomass

Collection, storage, transportation planning

Biomass power planning upto micro level

Biomass power plant at Napaam village, Assam

Rice straw as feedstock for power generation

Assess rice cropland using GIS and LISS IV image

Estimate surplus rice straw

Estimate energy potential of surplus rice straw

Supply side

Demand side

household electricity demand survey

Power plant characteristics

Operating time 5 hours day-1

Generation technology Direct combustion of biomass

Conversion efficiency 20%

Plant size 155 kW

Straw demand: 363 tonne year-1

Straw demand: 363 tonne year-1

Parameter Value

Rice productivity (tonne ha-1) 2.8

RPR 1.757

Availability factor 0.5

Calorific value (MJ kg-1) 14.5

Rice straw residue biomass

Surplus rice straw: 537 tonne year-1

Biomass power plant location

Acknowledgement to DST-NRDMS, New Delhi for research funding

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