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Potential of Bioelectricity Production in India Through Thermochemical Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass

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India is an agricultural nation and its economy mainly depends on the agriculture. About 500 million tons (MT) of crop residues are generated out of total agriculture produce per year, which are either used as animal feed, livestock bedding, packaging material, cooking in households, papermaking, etc. or burned in the farms and create the environment pollution along with deterioration of the farm fertility. However, there is a great potential if the surplus biomass could be utilized as a feedstock to produce bioelectricity through gasification and combustion. About 23% of India's land is also covered by forest. Forestry waste and other agro-wastes are readily available to use these wastes for the electricity production. In this chapter, the availability of biomass, gasification and combustion technologies and its potential in power generation have been described.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Allahabad, 211004, India

    Rakesh Punia

  2. Thermochemical Conversion Division, Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy, Kapurthala, 144601, India

    R. R. Marlar & S. K. Tyagi

  3. Biochemical Conversion Division, Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy, Kapurthala, 144601, India

    Sachin Kumar

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    Anuj K. Chandel

  2. Centre for Biofuels Microbial Processes & Technology Division, CSIR, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

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Punia, R., Marlar, R.R., Kumar, S., Tyagi, S.K. (2017). Potential of Bioelectricity Production in India Through Thermochemical Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass. In: Chandel, A., Sukumaran, R. (eds) Sustainable Biofuels Development in India. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50219-9_8

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