Viability study of biomass power plant fired with rice straw in Egypt

Suzan Abdelhady; Domenico Borello; Ahmed Shaban; Franco Rispoli

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.1072

Viability study of biomass power plant fired with rice straw in Egypt

Suzan Abdelhady^*, Domenico Borello, Ahmed Shaban, Franco Rispoli

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Abstract

This paper investigates the potential of rice straw for producing energy in Egypt. It is estimated that about 3.1 million tons/year of rice straw are disposed by burning directly in the open field causing environmental problems. The present study was undertaken to assess the performance of rice straw power plant to specify the amount of the power, and GHG mitigation relative to the disposal rice-straw in energy production. The results indicate that rice straw can provide an annual net electric energy output of 2,447 GWh/year. The plant can reduce CO₂ emissions of (1.2 M ton CO₂/year).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	211-215
Number of pages	5
Journal	Energy Procedia
Volume	61
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.1072
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	6th International Conference on Applied Energy, ICAE 2014 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: May 30 2014 → Jun 2 2014

Keywords

Agricultural residues
Biomass power plant
Egypt
Life cycle co emissions
Rice straw

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General Energy

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Viability study of biomass power plant fired with rice straw in Egypt

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