Conceptualizing a Resilient Supply Chain for Single-fuel Biomass Power Plant

India is taking several steps to decarbonize electricity as part of the climate change mitigation efforts. One of those steps has been to promote electricity generation from biomass. Past research has focused on risks related to technology, cost, financing, policy, and supply chain in case of biomass power, but there have been limited studies on risks arising due to climate change. Climate change can have major implications for the supply chain of biomass power plants by affecting the underground water availability and land productivity and thereby affecting the availability of biomass for power plants. The effect could be more acute for single-fuel biomass power plants rather than for multi-fuel biomass power plants. Using data from an 8 megawatt (MW) biomass power plant and by developing a conceptual model, this article models risks arising due to climate change and assesses their likely impact on single-fuel biomass power plants. Two key insights emerge from the analysis: (a) A supply chain that is not sustainable and resilient to climate change impacts poses a major risk to the profits of a biomass power plant; and (b) Single-fuel biomass power plants may need to change their businesses and sourcing strategies by either turning into multi-fuel biomass power plant or by increasing the catchment area of their sourcing.

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The Development of Straw-Based Biomass Power Generation in Rural Area in Northeast China—An Institutional Analysis Grounded in a Risk Management Perspective

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12051973 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

pp. 1973 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lingling Wang ◽

Tsunemi Watanabe

Keyword(s):

Power Generation ◽

Risk Management ◽

Power Plant ◽

Power Plants ◽

Biomass Energy ◽

Energy Industry ◽

Biomass Supply ◽

Management Perspective ◽

Biomass Power Plant ◽

Biomass Power Plants

Given a lack of consideration for the role and importance of stakeholders and the importance of stakeholders in the operation of biomass power plants in China, a comprehensive analysis oriented toward stakeholder risk management is needed to further develop the country’s biomass energy industry. Accordingly, we analyzed institutional factors that contribute to or constrain progress in biomass power generation in China. Data were collected from 275 straw suppliers (farmers) living around a biomass power plant, 15 middlemen, five power plant managers, and five local government officers. Interviews were held with all the participants, but questionnaires were additionally administered to the straw suppliers. Results showed that: (1) risk transfer in the biomass supply chain is one of the reasons why farmers are unwilling to supply straw; (2) middlemen are vital intermediaries between biomass power plant managers and farmers as a middleman-based biomass supply system is necessary to guarantee the quantity of straw supply, and; (3) the institutional structure that underlies the Chinese biomass energy industry is immature.

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Properties of Slag and Ash from the Incinerator in Biomass Power Plants

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.512-515.579 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 512-515 ◽

pp. 579-582 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Qun Li ◽

Zhi Xuan Zhang ◽

Si Ming Liu ◽

Ji Xin Su

Keyword(s):

Power Plant ◽

Power Plants ◽

Major Elements ◽

Residual Carbon ◽

Soluble Salts ◽

Characterization Methods ◽

Biomass Power Plant ◽

Biomass Power Plants

The properties of slag and ash generated from a biomass power plant were analyzed by various characterization methods and the sulfur was tracked. The results showed that the slag and ash contain major elements like Si, S, K and Ca etc and primary substances like SiO2, CaCO3etc. Sulfur is in the form of amorphous soluble salts and insoluble materials in residual carbon.

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Digital Community Biomass Power Plant Competitiveness in Thailand

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202019102005 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 191 ◽

pp. 02005

Author(s):

Suwannee Adsavakulchai ◽

Udomsak Kaewsiri

Keyword(s):

Power Plant ◽

Private Sector ◽

Power Plants ◽

Energy System ◽

Community Biomass ◽

Start Up ◽

Local Residents ◽

The Government ◽

Biomass Power Plant ◽

Biomass Power Plants

The participation of citizens and communities as partners in energy projects are transforming the energy system. Community enterprise initiatives are offering new opportunities for local residence to get actively involved in energy matters. Meanwhile, the worldwide deployment of digital technology in energy sector has become a trending subject of sorts among industry giants as well as the start-up investor community, with applications ranging from grid transactions, financing and transparency in supply chain. This paper reviewed the community biomass power plants sector to comply with the resolution of the National Energy Policy Council, rules and regulations based on a Porter's Diamond model. The results show that such collaborations between local residents and private sector or private sector with state organisation can lead to win-win situations, digitalizing the community biomass power plant by connect all relevant sectors through digital platform and sophisticated innovation in particular Fintech and IT have important potential implications for the implementation of a range of sustainable development and enhancing security and efficiency of the power plant. It is considered to be of great importance in order to enhances competitiveness and will continue to be supported by the government.

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Understanding the Potential of Bio-Carbon Capture and Storage from Biomass Power Plant in Indonesia

Indonesian Journal of Energy ◽

10.33116/ije.v4i1.99 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 36-56

Author(s):

Zefania Praventia Sutrisno ◽

Attaya Artemis Meiritza ◽

Anggit Raksajati

Keyword(s):

Power Plant ◽

Co2 Emission ◽

Energy Demand ◽

Carbon Capture ◽

Power Plants ◽

Coal Power ◽

Firing Technology ◽

Biomass Power Plant ◽

Biomass Power Plants ◽

Near Future

Indonesia is currently experiencing a significant increase in population, industrialization and energy demand. As the energy demand increases, so does the production of climate-altering CO2 emission. Biomass power plants have emerged as a low carbon power generation alternative, utilizing agricultural and industrial waste. Biomass power plants have the potential of being a carbon-negative power generation technology in the near future by integrating carbon and capture storage (bio-CCS). The objective of this paper is to analyze and map potential CO2 emission in the processes of biomass power plants from gasification and firing or co-firing technology, then recommend suitable carbon capture technology based on the biomass power plant characteristics in Indonesia. The CO2 emission to be captured in the gasification process is 11-15% of the producer gas, while in co-firing it is 7-24% of the flue gas stream. Using biomass instead of coal in power plants reduces the electric efficiency and increases the plant’s in-house emission, but when analyzed in a wider boundary system it is apparent that the net GWP and CO2 emission of biomass power plants are way smaller than coal power plant, moreover when equipped with carbon capture unit. Biomass power plant that uses firing technology can reduce CO2 emission by 148% compared to typical coal power plant. Installing carbon capture unit in biomass firing power plants can further reduce the specific CO2 emission by 262%. If carbon capture technology is implemented to all existing biomass power plants in Indonesia, it could reduce the greenhouse gas emission up to 2.2 million tonnes CO2 equivalent annually. It is found that there are 3 significant designs for gasification technology: NREL design, Rhodes & Keith design and IGBCC+DeCO2 design. The first two designs are not suitable to be retrofitted into existing biomass power plants in Indonesia since they are based on a specific BCL/FERCO gasifier. While IGBCC+DeCO2 design still needs further study regarding its feasibility. While for firing, the most promising technology to be applied in the near future is solvent-based absorption because it is already on commercial scale for coal-based power plants and can be implemented for other source, e.g. biomass power plant. Bio-CCS in existing biomass power plant with firing technology is likely to be implemented in the near future compared to the gasification, because it applies the post combustion capture as an “end-of-pipe” technology which is generally seen as a more viable option to be retrofitted to existing power plants, resulting in potentially less expensive transition.

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Transport Cost Estimation Model of the Agroforestry Biomass in a Small-Scale Energy Chain

Environmental Sciences Proceedings ◽

10.3390/iecf2020-07891 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 22

Author(s):

Giulio Sperandio ◽

Andrea Acampora ◽

Vincenzo Civitarese ◽

Sofia Bajocco ◽

Marco Bascietto

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Power Plant ◽

Central Italy ◽

Biomass Energy ◽

Transport Cost ◽

Small Scale ◽

Economic Sustainability ◽

Transport Costs ◽

Energy Chain ◽

Biomass Power Plant

The delivery of biomass products from the production place to the point of final use is of fundamental importance within the constitution of energy chains based on biomass use as renewable energy source. In fact, transport can be one of the most economically expensive operations of the entire biomass energy production process. In this work, a geographic identification, through remote sensing and photo-interpretation, of the different biomass sources was used to estimate the potential available biomass for energy in a small-scale supply chain. The economic sustainability of transport costs was calculated for different types of biomass sources available close to a biomass power plant of a small-scale energy supply chain, in central Italy. The proposed analysis allows us to highlight and visualize on the map the areas of the territory characterized by greater economic sustainability in terms of lower transport costs of residual agroforestry biomass from the collection point to the final point identified with the biomass power plant. The higher transport cost was around € 40 Mg−1, compared to the lowest of € 12 Mg−1.

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PENGUJIAN PERFORMA REAKTOR DOWNDRAFT BIOMASSA KOTORAN SAPI

POROS ◽

10.24912/poros.v16i2.11650 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 121

Author(s):

Muhammad Ridwan Ridwan ◽

Noviyanti Nugraha Nugraha

Keyword(s):

Alternative Energy ◽

Power Plants ◽

Gas Content ◽

Cow Dung ◽

Test Results ◽

Discharge Temperature ◽

Calculation Results ◽

Chamber Temperature ◽

Biomass Power Plant ◽

Biomass Power Plants

Biomass power plants are electricity generators with alternative energy that utilize organicmaterials, in this case cow dung. The cow dung is then processed to produce syngas. Syngas is used as fuelto turn turbines. In previous studies, a cow manure gasification reactor was designed and manufactured.This reactor is part of a biomass power plant system (PLTBm) which is made separately. The power outputtarget of this PLTBm is 370 kW. The purpose of this study was to examine the performance of the downdraftreactor of cow dung biomass, namely discharge, temperature, and analyze the gas content released by thereactor so that the power that can be generated by the reactor can be obtained. The test results obtained acombustion chamber temperature of 580°C and a discharge of 0.285 m3/s. The composition of the outputgas is acetylene 58.16%, hexane 27.66%, butane 6.38%, and methane 7.8%. From the calculation results,the power generated by the reactor is 342 kW.

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Health Impact of Climate Change and Air Quality

Passive Remote Study of the Aerosol in the Upper Atmosphere of the Earth ◽

10.47363/jeesr/2019(1)109 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-4

Author(s):

Ling-Ling Chen ◽

◽

Chao-Heng Tseng ◽

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Supply Chain ◽

Climate Change Adaptation ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Health Impact ◽

Management Approach ◽

Disaster Reduction ◽

Industry Cluster ◽

Chain Processes ◽

Operation Process

The paper examines the relevance of the climate change adaptation and disaster reduction risk for supply chain processes in industry. Through a structured review of academic literature two primary challenges are highlighted: first, non-consistencymethod in integrating formal attribution of climate change adaptation and disaster reduction risk, and second in impacting with changing ecological environment and unpredictable natural disasters for supply chain processes in industry can be described as unavoidable. In examining these two challenges, we arrive at a climate change adaptation framework for industry supply chain as well as a framework of integratedclimate change adaptation and disaster reduction risk for industry cluster. In offering this viewpoint, related climate change adaptation and disaster reduction risk, acomprehensive risk and adaptation management approach is proposed as a practical framing for above two challenges to address climate change impacts and risks for supply chain processes in industry as well as promote the ability of risk and adaptation management in industrial operation process.

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Assessment on Energy Conversion Efficiency and GHG Emissions Rate for Coal, Natural Gas and Biomass Power Plant in Malaysia

Journal of Advanced Research in Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences ◽

10.37934/arfmts.87.2.145153 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 87 (2) ◽

pp. 145-153

Author(s):

Radin Diana R. Ahmad ◽

Tiong Sieh Kiong ◽

Sazalina Zakaria ◽

Ahmad Rosly Abbas ◽

Chen Chai Phing ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Power Plant ◽

Natural Gas ◽

Energy Conversion ◽

Conversion Efficiency ◽

Power Plants ◽

Emission Rate ◽

Energy Conversion Efficiency ◽

Combined Cycle ◽

Gas Power Plant ◽

Biomass Power Plant

Three different power plants have been assessed in terms of energy conversion efficiency and GHGs emission rate. The power plants are coal power plant, natural gas power plant and biomass power plant. The assessments are made by collecting fuels consumption data and generated electricity data of each power plant. In addition to the data collection, observation on operational practices have also been carried out. The energy conversion efficiency and the GHGs emission rate for all power plants are recorded to be lower than the typical values proposed by the literature. The biomass power plant recorded the lowest energy conversion efficiency at 6.47 %. Meanwhile, the natural gas power plant utilizing the combined cycle gas turbine technology recorded the highest overall energy conversion efficiency at 48.35 % and rated to emit GHGs at 0.32 kg CO2e per kWh.

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Simulation of 20 kV Biomass Power Plant Interconnection System

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/201912514001 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 125 ◽

pp. 14001

Author(s):

Adri Senen ◽

Isworo Pujotomo ◽

Yoakim Simamora

Keyword(s):

Power Plant ◽

Power Flow ◽

Power Plants ◽

Voltage Drop ◽

Short Circuit ◽

Power Losses ◽

Before And After ◽

Alternative Power ◽

Biomass Power Plant ◽

Short Circuit Currents

The need for new plants is needed to balance the demand for high electricity. To anticipate this, it is necessary to accelerate the achievement of the level of utilization of new and renewable energy (EBT) in the energy mix for electricity supply by encouraging the use of energy from water, biomass, solar, wind to electricity. The Biomass Power Plant (PLTBm) is one of the environmentally friendly alternative power plants that produce electricity and heat by burning biomass in boilers in this case from wood waste from furniture and old rubber trees. The Interconnection System will be implemented in this PLTBm, where interconnection with the existing 20 kV system will be carried out. Research carried out includes power flow, voltage drop, losses, and short circuit. By conducting this study, it can be seen the profile of the overall system operation before and after this interconnection. The simulation results show that the PLTBm connected to the nearest feeder point from the generator is the best choice in terms of making the system voltage better between 19.1 kV and 20.17 kV. Power losses range from 439 kW and 5005.4 Kvar as well as short circuit currents, namely 13.73 KA.

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