1. Biomass Power Plant Planning using Remote sensing and GIS M Hiloidhari Department of Energy,Tezpur University, India

2. 1 Energy Demand Cost Supply Petroleum Coal Gas 40 years 200 years 60 years Future?? ?? Emission

3. 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

4. Biomass: potential rural energy source  heat, electricity and fuels  Renewable, carbon neutral  35% primary energy in developing countries Agricultural Forest products Municipal organic waste Animal manure Aquatic plants Rice straw Wood chip

5.  India generates 139 million tonnes surplus biomass annually  Biomass power potential 22000 MW  Installed 2300 MW Biomass power in India

6. RSGIS in Bioenergy Spatial and temporal mapping of biomass Collection, storage, transportation planning Biomass power planning upto micro level

7. 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

8. Power plant characteristics Operating time5 hours day -1 Generation technologyDirect combustion of biomass Conversion efficiency 20% Plant size155 kW Straw demand: 363 tonne year -1 ParameterValue Rice productivity (tonne ha -1 )2.8 RPR1.757 Availability factor0.5 Calorific value (MJ kg -1 )14.5 Rice straw residue biomass Surplus rice straw: 537 tonne year -1

9. Biomass power plant location

10. Acknowledgement to DST-NRDMS, New Delhi for research funding

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