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Economic and Adoption Feasibility of Biomass Pellet Production Unit and Use of Pellet Stoves- A Pilot Study

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Title Economic and Adoption Feasibility of Biomass Pellet Production Unit and Use of Pellet Stoves- A Pilot Study
 
Creator Sunita Kumari
 
Contributor Singal, Savita
 
Subject biomass, energy resources, crop residues, biological phenomena, costs, land resources, crops, economics, manpower, biofuels
 
Description The present study was undertaken in village Kaimri of Hisar district, Haryana state. Study
was conducted in four phases. Under phase-I, baseline survey on availability and use of fuels was
conducted on 100 rural respondents. In phase-II, training on pellet making was imparted to ten rural
women for 7 days and fifty women were trained in use of pellet stove. One pellet stove and 60- 70 kg.
of pellets were distributed to selected fifty respondents for use for two months. Under phase-III,
thermal efficiency of pellet stove was calculated by using the formula given by Sharma et al. (1988).
In phase- IV, economic feasibility of pelletizing unit was calculated on the basis of cost-benefit ratio.
Adoption feasibility of pelletizing unit and pellet stove was calculated with the help of scale given by
Rogers and Shoemaker (1971). Majority of the respondents belonged to middle age (47.00%), were
illiterate (43.00%) and had medium sized family. Wheat straw and cotton stalks were available in large
quantities to respondents from medium and large land holding categories. Respondents used 5- 10 kg.
of biomass fuel (59.00%) in traditional chulha which was collected on alternate day. Respondents
faced ‘severe’ to ‘most severe’ problems in collection, fetching, storage and use of biomass fuels. Preexposure knowledge of the respondents regarding biomass pelletizing and use of pellet stove was
found to be low. After imparting trainings, percentage gain in knowledge was 77.32 and 85.72 per
cent for biomass pelletizing process and use of pellet stove, respectively. Thermal efficiency of pellet
stove was found to be 44.93 per cent. Cost-benefit ratio of pelletizing unit was 1:2.27 which reflects it
as an economically viable entrepreneurial unit. Adoption feasibility of pelletizing unit was 77.10 per
cent on adoption feasibility index. Respondents used between 601-700 gm. of pellets at a time for
preparing chapati/parantha, and heating of milk or water on it. Health benefits were perceived as
‘most beneficial’, followed by economical benefits and benefits related to use of pellet stove.
Situational constraints like non-availability of kerosene oil and pellets ranked highest. Respondents
considered pellet stove as ‘most feasible’ with 78.93 per cent on feasibility index.
 
Date 2016-02-17T12:03:36Z
2016-02-17T12:03:36Z
2014
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/64346
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CCSHAU