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Crop Residues: A Potential Bioenergy Resource

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Advances in Chemical, Bio and Environmental Engineering (CHEMBIOEN 2021)

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Most of the population in India relies on agriculture and livestock for their livelihood as the country is bestowed by the nature with a variety of geographical regions vacillating from high mountains to wetlands, myriads rivers to plains, thus making most land fertile and suitable for a variety of food crops. The crop residues like rice straw, leaves, roots, bagasse, etc. that remain in fields after harvesting and processing are proving to be a major concern as these residues are frequently burnt by the farmers in the open fields causing environmental pollution leading to serious health problems. On the other hand, the share of bioenergy in power generation is significantly low as compared to the other available resources in the total energy mix of the country. The biomass can provide reliable and consistent power supply to the end-user in comparison with solar and wind energy resources, therefore, preferred as a renewable energy resource over other resources. Due to dependency on the season, the solar and wind energy resources fluctuate over short and large time frames. Thus, provides unreliable and inconsistent supply to end-user however biomass seems to be a feasible alternative to fossil fuels. So, the solar, wind, and biomass due to their different characteristics provide an opportunity for hybrid utilization of these resources to compensate for their individual drawbacks. Hybridization of these resources helps to utilize the biomass efficiently and provides electricity to end-users reliably and consistently. Hence, biomass-based hybrid power plants are tremendously promising energy systems in near future. Biogas production through anaerobic digestion from such crop residues can offer great potential for replacement of the fossil fuel for our energy requirements.

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  1. Dr. S.S.B. University Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014, India

    Maninder Kaur

  2. College of Agricultural Engineering & Technology (COAE&T), CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 125001, Haryana, India

    Sandeep Dhundhara

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Kaur, M., Dhundhara, S. (2022). Crop Residues: A Potential Bioenergy Resource. In: Ratan, J.K., Sahu, D., Pandhare, N.N., Bhavanam, A. (eds) Advances in Chemical, Bio and Environmental Engineering. CHEMBIOEN 2021. Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96554-9_24

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