Title:
Availability and Characteristic Studies of Using 23 Biomass Residues for Developing of Distributed Community Power Plants
Author(s):
Kerdsuwan, S., Laohalidanond, K.
Document(s):
Paper
Poster
Abstract:
Biomass residues are the discard materials left after agricultural harvesting activity and need to have the appropriate manner to handle with since its still contain the hidden green energy that can be used in the form of green heat and electrical and help to reduce the using of fossil fuel and mitigate the global warming effect. This work shall investigate the availability and its characteristic that can be used to establish a distributed community power plant. 22 biomass residues have been selected by using agricultural products of Thailand as studied model which include agricultural residues, fast-growing plants and biomass residues from industry. Availability shall be studied in term of Crop-to-Residue Ratio (CRR) and Surplus-Availability-Factor (SAF) which are the results from field survey. Characteristics in regarding of the establishment of power plant consist of proximate and ultimate analysis. Moisture content and high heating value varied from 15 to 95.52 %-wt. (as received basis) and from 3,700 to 5,155 kcal/kg (dry basis), respectively. Then 17 provinces were selected as the suitable location according to technical criterion: potential for power generation (MW), energy density (kJ/m2) and cost of biomass (Baht/GJ). Thereafter 8 sites were selected for the establishment of 1 MW biomass power plant base on the existing infrastructure in those areas and the public participation within 50 km from the focus area was conducted in terms of financial support from local government, environmental concern and investment from private company. In addition, it is suitable for sustainable electricity production in rural area at biomass source. Therefore, site selection is one of the most important aspects to be taken into consideration. The site selection procedure has been levelled in to 3 steps: (1) Select 24 provinces from the whole country (77 provinces) by using secondary data, (2) Select 11 provinces from 24 provinces by site surveying to obtain CRR and SAF for selected provinces and (3) Development of 1-MW distributed community biomass power plant by considering the local administration’s support, the community’s environmental concerns and the readiness for investment and operation.
Keywords:
biomass, energy crops, surplus-availability-factor, community power plant
Topic:
Biomass Resources
Subtopic:
Biomass potentials and biomass mobilisation
Event:
24th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
1BV.4.10
Pages:
185 - 188
ISBN:
978-88-89407-165
Paper DOI:
10.5071/24thEUBCE2016-1BV.4.10
Price:
FREE
