Investigation on the Efficacy of Using Biomass Agricultural Residue as Alternate Fuel for Binary-Fuel Cogeneration Power Plant

EasyChair Preprint 10324

Abstract

The ensuing research is focused on assessing the efficacy of converting existing fossil fuel thermal power plants to biomass power units. The study is conducted to analyze the performance and economic feasibility of a binary fuel Cogeneration power plant using biomass agricultural residue as an alternate fuel. The plant is designed to operate on both coal and biomass residue, and the performance of the plant has been evaluated by comparing the efficiencies on both fuels. The economic feasibility is evaluated by analyzing the reduction in fuel cost reduction achieved by using biomass residue as an alternate fuel. The performance analysis reveals that the isentropic efficiency (on a component performance basis) of the power plant is increased by 2% when biomass agricultural residue is used instead of coal. The economic analysis reveals that the use of biomass agricultural residue as an alternate fuel can result in a fuel cost reduction of 2 PKR/kWh as compared to coal. This reduction in fuel cost is attributed to the lower cost of biomass residue compared to coal as well as the availability of biomass residue as a renewable and abundant source of fuel. Therefore, initial priming of plant on fossil fuel may be necessary before switching power production to alternate fuel.

Keyphrases: Agricultural residues, Binary fuel Cogeneration power plant, Biomass fuels, economic analysis, efficiency enhancement, performance analysis

@booklet{EasyChair:10324,
  author    = {Shahzaib Ali and Ali Sarosh and Mushabbar H.Noor},
  title     = {Investigation on the Efficacy of Using Biomass Agricultural Residue as Alternate Fuel for Binary-Fuel Cogeneration Power Plant},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 10324},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2023}}