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Description: Various published data show the amount of crop residue available in India may range from a low of 90 to a high of 180 million tonnes. One immediate short term use of the residue is to replace 5-7% of the 670 million tonnes of coal India currently consumes to generate power. The estimated biomass tonnage would range from 33.5 million to 47.5 million tonnes annually. The resulting reduction in GHG would exceed 100 million tonnes. The farmers will benefit from the sale of their excess crop residue to power plants while reducing pollution due to crop burning. The challenge is to mobilize the crop residue collection and delivery to ensure a robust and sustainable supply chain. The data and calculations in this monogram show that it is economical for the famer to remove the crop residue from the field quickly by using modern balers, to pelletize the biomass in small scale distributed pellet plants, to store pellets in the modern steel bins and to de-liver the pellets to coal plants using rail transport. The delivered cost is estimated around Rp 6.78/kg. The Government of India encourages the power plants to pay at least Rp 10/kg for the de-livered biomass. The critical components of the proposed supply chain are discussed in this monogram.

Keywords: India, Pellets, Power plant, coal, Ag pellets, Supply chain, Logistics, Storage bins, rail transport, Cost estimates, GHG Emissions, Infrastructure
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Date: 2023-07-23
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Conference name: CSBE/SCGAB 2023 Annual Conference, Lethbridge, Alberta, 23-26 July 2023.
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Coverage: North_America
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Rights: Canadian Society for Bioengineering
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