by | Feb 19, 2024 | Bio environmental Solutions, Bio Products, Bioenergy, Biomass for heating and power, Biomass Power Plants, India Updates
India bio-economy updates from BioBiz Every year, 22 million tonnes of rice straw is burnt in Punjab and Haryana, contributing to severe pollution and elevated PM 2.5 and PM 10 levels in Delhi and NCR. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has launched a...
by | Feb 14, 2024 | Biofuels, Biomass for Commercial Heating, Biomass Power Plants
GHG Reduction Technologies, a subsidiary of EKI Energy Services, has launched a new plant in Nashik, Maharashtra, that produces biomass briquettes from agricultural waste. Biomass briquettes, made from agri-residue such as sugarcane trash, corn cob, soya husk,...
by | Feb 8, 2024 | Air Pollution, Bioenergy, Biofuels, Biomass for Commercial Heating, Biomass for Industrial Heating, Biomass Power Plants, Innovation Insights, Thermochemical Pathways
UK government approves $2.5B project for ‘carbon negative’ power plant in Drax Power station in North Yorkshire, in the north of England. Drax, the power station in Yorkshire, which produces around 4% of the UK’s power, mostly burns biomass imported from North...
by | Jan 17, 2024 | Biomass Power Plants, India Updates, Thermal Pathways
India bio-economy updates from BioBiz BHEL, a state-owned power equipment manufacturer, has won a competitive bid to set up a 2,400 MW supercritical thermal power project in Odisha for NLC India, a coal PSU. The project will use boilers with biomass co-firing...
by | Jan 2, 2024 | Biomass for Commercial Heating, Biomass for Industrial Heating, Biomass Power Plants, India Updates, Thermal Pathways
India bio-economy updates from BioBiz JANUARY 2, 2024 The researchers from Finland tested the system in different modes and found that the hybrid mode, which combines solar and heat pump operation, resulted in higher and faster drying rates than the solar-only mode....
by | Dec 5, 2023 | Air Pollution, Biomass for heating and power, Biomass Power Plants, India Updates, Thermochemical Pathways
December 2023 NLC India Ltd (NLCIL) has started biomass co-firing in its coal-based thermal power station NLC Tamilnadu Power Ltd (NTPL) at Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu. The biomass co-firing is done by using agricultural waste pellets, which provide an additional...
