The Punjab Energy Development Agency has released a draft green hydrogen policy aiming to achieve a green hydrogen and ammonia production capacity of 100 kilo tonnes per annum by 2030. The policy proposes extending incentives under the existing “Punjab Industrial and Business Development Policy 2022” to new green hydrogen and …
Business is down at the Surya Chambal power plant, but not because of recession. It is the fuel. This power plant runs not on coal, but on mustard husk. When it was set up four years ago in Kota, in Rajasthan, mustard husk was in surplus. It cost Jyoti Ranjan, …
With so many contenders emerging for agricultural residue and fuel wood, biomass power plant owners are looking beyond national boundaries for viability. To make a profit they now look at carbon credits. “They are the plant’s lifeline,” Ranjan said. His power plant in Kota uses 1.4 kg husk for each …
While the government thrashes out ways and means to ensure raw material and boost green power plants, a biomass power plant had to shut shop unable to cope with the raw material crisis. Rising prices of biomass led the 7.5 MW Konark biomass power plant in Karnataka’s Tumkur district to …
By producing electricity from locally available rice husk, the company lights up a thousand rural households Growing up, Gyanesh Pandey hated his home state Bihar. Today, the 33-year-old doesn
We examine whether access to aspects of social infrastructure, such as toilet facilities, drinking water on the premises and clean cooking fuels, leads to a decline in the incidence of undernutrition among women, which remains quite high in India. The analysis, based on the National Family Health Survey-3 (2005-06) unit-level …
The year: 2004. The movie: Swades (Hindi for homeland). Shah Rukh Khan is playing the character of Mohan Bhargava, a non-resident Indian space scientist in the US. On a trip to meet his grandmother in India, Bhargava is appalled by the living conditions in her village, Charanpur, set in the …
Biomass power generation started with a bang 10 years ago. Surya Chambal entered a growing sector. Use of biomass as fuel has gained wide acceptance recently. Earned money from carbon credits, under the UN
Development of a new class of single pan high efficiency, low emission stoves, named gasifier stoves, that promise constant power that can be controlled using any solid biomass fuel in the form of pellets is reported here. These stoves use battery-run fan-based air supply for gasification (primary air) and for …
Abundant plant biomass has the potential to become a sustainable source of fuels and chemicals. Realizing this potential requires the economical conversion of recalcitrant lignocellulose into useful intermediates, such as sugars. We report a high-yielding chemical process for the hydrolysis of biomass into monosaccharides. Adding water gradually to a chloride …
Lays stone of 1,320-MW thermal unit at Rajpura Rajpura, March 2 Punjab is ready to set up a nuclear power plant, if offered by the Centre. This was stated by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal while addressing mediapersons after laying the foundation stone of a 1,320-MW coal-based thermal plant at …
While the commercial and banking centre Dubai finds itself dealing with the aftermath of the economic crisis, the conservative neighbour Abu Dhabi is already pursuing ambitious targets-but the climate conditions in the desert states are not always ideal for the utilization of renewable energies.
1.4kg of rice husk equals 1 unit of power Channo (Gidderbaha): Thousands of Punjab farmers, who put on fire tonnes of wheat and rice stubble in their fields, do not realise they are not only burning their gold mines but also polluting the atmosphere with large carbon emissions. Not many …
From 2013 on utilities will have to buy up their full requirement of European Emission Allowances via auctions. One way to reduce their requirement, and thus costs, will be to generate CO2 certificates from CDM project participation.
Bio seems to be the buzzword of the moment when experts in India talk about the country's future energy supply. India's government wants to put more emphasis on biomass and the industry shows increaseing interest.
Every morning and evening, millions of women in India spend an hour or two cooking their rice, dal, curry, and roti or other flat bread. Most will prepare their meals over a smoky, 3-stone open fire or a traditional clay or brick cook stove called a chulha. The stoves burn …
Producer gas generated in partial combustion of biomass in the gasifier can be used for heating purposes as also as a supplementary or sole fuel in internal combustion engines. In the present study, producer gas generated from partial combustion of rice husk was used as the fuel for the CI …
Efficient synthesis of renewable fuels remains a challenging and important line of research. We report a strategy by which aqueous solutions of {gamma}-valerolactone (GVL), produced from biomass-derived carbohydrates, can be converted to liquid alkenes in the molecular weight range appropriate for transportation fuels by an integrated catalytic system that does …
Vrinda Sharma BATHINDA: Aiming to make Punjab power-surplus in the next two years, a bio-mass power plant, one of over 30 planned in the State, was inaugurated at Muktsar, 70 km from here, on Friday. Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah, who inaugurated the plant, termed it …
Bhubaneswar: The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) secretary, Deepak Gupta, said on Thursday that the country has great potential for generation of renewable energy from rice husk. Recognizing the potential of the sector and its relevance in the backdrop of the energy crisis the country is facing , …
