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With your favorite host

Vignesh Sridharan

Guests on today’s show

K. Vaideesh Subbaraj

Shivendra Upadhyay

M. Vishwanath

Analysis of Biomass and Biofuels as source of energy

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Technology and

Environmental Impact

of Biomass & Biofuels

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Technology

• Biomass technology today serves many markets that were developed with fossil fuels and modestly reduces their use

• Uses - Industrial process heat and steam,

Electrical power generation, Transportation fuels (ethanol and biodiesel) and other products.

• Primary focus of the Biomass Program – development of advanced technologies.

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Current Focus

• Platform technologies

• Sugar Platform Technology

• Thermochemical Platform Technology

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Bio-refinery

• A facility that integrates biomass conversion processes and equipment to produce fuels, power, and chemicals from biomass.

• Analogous to today's petroleum refineries

• It is based on the “Sugar Platform“ and the “Thermochemical Platform“

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Liquid Fuel Technology

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Bio-diesel

• Made by transforming animal fat or vegetable oil with alcohol .

• Fuel is made from rapeseed (canola) oil or soybean oil or recycled restaurant grease.

• Directly substituted for diesel either as neat fuel or as an oxygenate additive

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Modified Waste Vegetable Fat• Designed for general use in most

compression ignition engines .

•  The production of MWVF can be achieved in a continuous flow additive process.  

• It can be modified in various ways to make a 'greener' form of fuel

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E-Diesel

• Uses additives in order to allow blending of

ethanol with diesel.

• Ethanol blends of 7.7% to 15% and up to 5%

• Additives that prevent the ethanol and diesel from separating at very low temperatures or if water contamination occurs.

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Jatropha

• Biodiesel from Jatropha

• Seeds of the Jatropha nut is crushed and oil is extracted

• The oil is processed and refined to form bio-diesel.

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Gaseous fuel

Technology

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Gasification Technology

• Gobar gas Production

• Biogas

• Synthesis gas

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Gasification

• A process that uses heat, pressure, and steam to convert materials directly into a gas composed primarily of carbon monoxide and hydrogen.

• Gasification technologies rely four key engineering factors

1. Gasification reactor atmosphere (level of oxygen or air content).

2. Reactor design. 3. Internal and external heating. 4. Operating temperature.

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Gasification

• Typical raw materials - coal, petroleum-based materials, and organic materials.

• The feedstock is prepared and fed, in either dry or slurried form, into a sealed reactor chamber called a gasifier.

• The feedstock is subjected to high heat, pressure, and either an oxygen-rich or oxygen-starved environment within the gasifier.

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Raw Materials for Gasification

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Gasification

• Products of gasification : * Hydrocarbon gases (also called

syngas). * Hydrocarbon liquids (oils). * Char (carbon black and ash).

• Syngas is primarily carbon monoxide and hydrogen (more than 85 percent by volume) and smaller quantities of carbon dioxide and methane

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Gasifier Plant

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Gasifier Plant

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Types of Gasifiers

• Updraft Gasifier

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Types of Gasifiers

• Downdraft Gasifier

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Types of Gasifiers

• Twin-fire Gasifier

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Types of Gasifiers

• Crossdraft gas producers

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Gobar gas

• Gobar gas production is an anaerobic process

• Fermentation is carried out in an air tight, closed cylindrical concrete tank called a digester

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Solid Fuel

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Wood

• Domestic heating with wood is still by far the largest market for bio-energy

• Dramatic improvements of technology in domestic heating equipment

• Improved tiled stoves, advanced logwood boilers, woodchip boilers, pellet boilers and pellet stoves.

• Pourable wood-based fuel is also available

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Tiled stoves

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Pellet Boilers and Stoves

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Logwood boiler

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Woodchip boilers

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Environmental Concerns

• Air Pollution

• Soil Deterioration

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Air Concerns

• Biomass processing technologies and biofuels use have the potential to increase emissions of ozone precursors

o Increase in Nox emissions

•Excessive inhalation of ethanol is harmful

•Combustion of ethanol would result in increased atmospheric concentrations of carcinogens

• Emission of relatively large sized particulate matter

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Soil Concerns

• Burning biomass deprives local eco-systems of nutrients

• Production of dedicated energy crops renders land fallow

• Reduced land availability for cattle grazing

•Increased use of pesticides and fertilizers to produce energy crops contaminate ground and surface water

o Affects fish and wildlife

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Environmental Benefits

•Reduction of waste

• Extremely low emission of greenhouse gases compared to fossil fuels

• Ethanol is Carbon neutral and forms a part of the carbon cycle

• Growing variety of crops increases bio-diversity

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Socio-Economic Benefits

• Helps developing economies by promoting agrarian communities

• Increase in jobs

• Increase in trade balance (Indian perspective) due to lesser dependence on foreign resources

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BIO FUELS

THE WORLD SCENARIO

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BRAZIL

•World leader in production and export of ethanol.•Ethanol produced per day equivalent to 200,000 barrels of gasoline.•24% blend ethanol mandatory.•Competitiveness•Bio diesel initiatives underway

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U.S.A.

• Ethanol : a big boost to economy• E85 sells cheaper than gasoline• Currently production aimed at 4.5 Billion gallons/yr• MTBE phased out in many states

• Soya bean main source of biodiesel

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E.U.

• Rapeseed main source of bio diesel • 3-15% blended petrol • France: Bio diesel exempted from domestic tax• Germany: Sales of bio diesel 99 million US gallons • Rise of SVO as domestic fuel

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The Significant Others

• China: 3rd largest producer of ethanol producing 220,000 tons of ethanol, exporting 90,000 tons in 2000.

• In southeast Asia, the Jatropha tree is used as a significant fuel source

• Malaysia and Indonesia are starting pilot-scale production from palm oil.

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India

• Sources of ethanol:• Sugarcane• Molasses • Agricultural waste

• Low average cost of Rs.18/litre projected

• Annual production capacity of 1.5 Billion litres

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• Sources of biodiesel:• Honge• Jatropha

• High capital, broad scale production plan initiated • Cost per liter projected at Rs. 27

India (Contd.)

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Bio Mass

• Biomass already supplies 14 % of the world’s primary energy consumption. On average, biomass produces 38 % of the primary energy in developing countries.

• USA: 4% of total energy from bio mass, around 9000 MW

• INDIA is short of 15,000 MW of energy and it costs about 25,000 crores annually for the government to import oil.

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• Bio Mass from cattle manure, agricultural waste, forest residue and municipal waste.

• Anaerobic digestion of livestock wastes to give bio gas

• Digester consumes roughly one third the power it’s capable of producing.

• Fertilizers as by product.

• Average electricity generation of 5.5kWh per cow per day!!

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