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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Electrifying rural India remains a desired yet problematic goal for the Government of India. National statistics illustrate deprivation as well as discrimination in the generation, Transmission and distribution of electricity in rural as compared to urban areas of the country. Electricity is indispensable to many industries including agriculture, healthcare, and education. It is also a key factor in the overall improvement of living standards. Although the Government Of India has prioritized rural electrification, as seen in the Planning Commission's current five-year plan, the status quo remains the same. According to the 2001 census, 5, 93,732 Indian Villages lack electricity. The midterm appraisal of the eleventh five percent of villages (urban and rural) are electrified, but household electrification in the states of Bihar, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand is still far below the national average of 50. Furthermore, an electricity line runs through 80 percent of Indian villages, however only 52.5 percent of rural households have access to that electricity. A global energy crisis and heightened environmental concerns has encouraged the search for alternative sources of energy around the world. In this context, Husk Power Systems (HPS) has emerged as a role model in the renewable energy sector. Today, HPS is revolutionizing rural electrification in India. HPS is an innovative social enterprise that promotes decentralized power generation and distribution in remote villages of India. The platform is a bio gasification technology that converts rice husks into combustible gases that can drive generators to produce electricity. Running on an environmentally friendly model, HPS ensures sustainable electricity to even the most remote parts of the country. DISCUSSION The use of rice husks for process power generation has the following benefits. It is a carbon-neutral and renewable source of energy, thereby reducing the emission of greenhouse gases results in a reduction in emissions of sulfur and other pollutants associated with the use of fossil fuels, thereby improving local Environmental conditions results in an improvement in the efficiency of the husk-fired boilers, leading to its acceptability by the industry and other stakeholders as an acceptable practice develops the local economy by creating a market for rice husks, formerly a waste disposal problem meets the thermal energy requirements of the process industry in a more cost-effective manner and generates employment at the local level for collection and supply of rice husks. There are so many reasons associated with rice husk for not being utilized effectively, like, (1) lack awareness of its potential to a farmers and industry persons, (2) insufficient information about proper use, (3) socio-economic problems, (4) penetration of technology, (5) lack of interest, (6) lack of environmental concerns, (7) inefficiency of information transfer, etc. Solution to the problems associated with utilization of this solid waste needs to be worked out not only from the quality point of view but quantitatively as well, because quantity of rice husk produced is very large. But the most promising and profitable use of this biomass is its use for the electrical energy generation in efficient way, besides this using rice husk in bio-power generation adopting efficient equipment gives very valuable by product. CONCLUSIONS Rice husk has been used directly or in the form of ash either as a value added material for manufacturing and synthesizing new materials or as a low cost substitute material for modifying the properties of existing products. Presence of silica is an additional advantage in comparison to other byproduct materials which makes RH an important material for a wide range of manufacturing and application oriented processes. Easy availability and low price of rice husk in rice producing countries is an extra benefit towards the use of this material. |
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@Neel, Wow, congratulation! I look forward your upcoming postings then :D
Posted 07-04-2015 13:41
sure, will do it in my next article @ Rohan. :)
Posted 04-04-2015 19:37
yeah Christy. as i am done with my board exams now i will upload more articles on this topic soon. :)
Posted 04-04-2015 19:35
Great news! Has it been proved with its whole CO2 neutral including building new generator and lines customized for husk power? I'm curious :)
Posted 01-04-2015 15:09
India has plenty of rice husk and hence immense potential for using them to generate power. This seems like a self-sustaining ecosystem in the villages it serves, enabling economic development along with environmental protection, physical well-being and strengthening of the rural communities.
Thanks for sharing.
Posted 01-04-2015 11:42
Husk power seems to be immense.
Pls share more info for our benefit.
Posted 31-03-2015 21:29
Well reported Neel.
Rice husk is definitely in abundance in India.
It will be highly appreciated if you may illustrate in detail the method of converting rice husk into Electricity. You can give diagram & pics to explain your argument.
It'll be greatly helpful for other ambassadors elsewhere in the world.
Posted 31-03-2015 16:22
Thanks for the new agenda Neel. We've divided some phases for the readability. Hope you can understand. :)
Posted 31-03-2015 09:36