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International Journal of Advanced Research Trends in Engineering and Technology (IJARTET) Vol. 2, Issue 7, July 2015
Estimating the Bio-Mass Potential- Roopnagar, Punjab Sundeep Singh Saini1, Dr Sudhir Sharma2, Chintu Rza3, Manjeet Singh4 Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, AIT, Gharuan, India 1 Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, DAVIET, Jalandhar, India 2 Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, DAVIET, Jalandhar, India 3 Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, GNDEC, Ludhiana, India 4 Abstract: Biomass has enormous potential for power generation in India. Punjab state is one of the major agriculture production state of India which has great biomass availability through the whole year. More than 40Mt/y has been generated as agri-waste in the state. The present study estimates the power potential of biomass in district Roopnagar of Punjab including Paddy straw as well as different type of crops which are grown in the district and can be used for power generation. Availability of unused agricultural biomass evaluated in present study is 944354.040 tones, which shows that the total potential available in Roopnagar district for data collected for 2014 is 246.184MW. Keywords: Biomass, Agri-Residue, Calorific Value, Potential. I. INTRODUCTION II. DATA COLLECTED Biomass is capable renewable energy resource Through Statistical Abstract of Punjab 2014 it has which can be used in the form of solid, liquid and gaseous been seen in Table 1 that major crops of Punjab state are fuel. Biomass can be converted into either heat energy or Paddy wheat, sugarcane, maize cotton and rapeseeds [2] electrical or energy carriers like charcoal, oil, or gas using TABLE I both thermochemical and biochemical conversion methods. MAJOR, MINOR AND INSIGNIFICANT CROP OF PUNJAB Combustion is the most developed and frequently applied Sugarc Rapese Sunflo District/C Paddy Wheat Maize Cotton Bajra Gram Barley Jowar rop ane ed wer process used for solid biomass fuels because of its cheap Amritsar ++ ++ + + + + x x x x + cost and high reliability. During combustion, the biomass Bathinda ++ ++ + + ++ + x + + x + Faridkot ++ ++ x x ++ x x x x x x first loses its moisture at temperatures up to 100°C, using Fatehgar ++ ++ + + + + x x x x x h Sahib heat from other particles that release their heat value [1]. Firozpur ++ ++ + + + + + x x x x Gurdaspu ++ ++ ++ + x + x + x x + Biomass power plants which involves direct r Hoshiarp ++ ++ + + + + x x x x + combustion of biofuel i.e. agri-residue use travel grade ur Jalandhar ++ ++ + + + + x x x x + burner which is very much suitable for burning biomass. Kapurtha ++ ++ ++ + x + x x x x + la Collected agri-residue is supplied to burner and it transfer Ludhiana ++ ++ + + + + x x + x + Mansa ++ ++ + + ++ + + x + x x heat while burning to boiler thus steam is produced which Moga ++ ++ + + + + x x x x + Muktsar then supplied to steam turbine. Steam turbine is coupled ++ ++ + + ++ + x + + x + Sahib Patiala ++ ++ + + + + + x x x + with the alternator which produces electricity. Most of the Rupnagar ++ ++ + + + + x + x + x power plants in Punjab uses Paddy straw as a base-fuel for Sangrur ++ ++ + + + + x + + x + power-production. Barnala ++ ++ + + ++ + x x + x x Fazilka + ++ + + ++ + x + + x x The purpose of the present study is to estimate the Pathanko ++ + + ++ x + x + + x x t power potential of biomass in district Roopnagar of Punjab S.A.S. + ++ + + + + x x x x + Nagar including Paddy straw as well as different type of crops S.B.S. + ++ + ++ + + x x x x + Nagar which are grown in the district and can be used for power Tarn ++ ++ + + + x x x x x + Taran production. ++: Major Crop, +: Minor Crop, x:Insignificant Crop
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