{"id":7019,"date":"2023-12-13T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T01:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bcg.in.th\/eng\/?p=7019"},"modified":"2023-12-13T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T01:59:11","slug":"biocoal-from-agricultural-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcg.in.th\/eng\/biocoal-from-agricultural-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"BioCoal from agricultural waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an agricultural-based country, Thailand has abundant agricultural waste with significant potential for energy production. A research team at NANOTEC-NSTDA, led by Dr. Sanchai Kuboon, conducted a research project to turn these by-products into BioCoal to be used in the coal fired power plant for electricity generation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7021\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/29-104_1-BioCoal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/29-104_1-BioCoal.jpg 468w, https:\/\/bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/29-104_1-BioCoal-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The research team employed torrefaction technology to convert biomass into solid fuel. Torrefaction is a thermochemical process that subjects biomass to temperatures ranging between 200 and 300 \u00b0C. During torrefaction, the moisture and volatile organic components are released from biomass, resulting in a high-grade solid biofuel.<\/p>\n<p>The study focused on designing optimal conditions for torrefaction of each feedstock and evaluating the properties of torrefied biomass, or BioCoal. A wide range of materials were investigated, including sugarcane leaves, cassava rhizomes, palm kernel shells, and eucalyptus bark. BioCoal produced from the investigation has a calorific value of 18-24 MJ\/kg \u2013 comparable to coal, a density of 0.65-0.75 kg\/l and a moisture content of 1-5 wt%. Compared to wood chips and wood pellets, BioCoal has higher energy content and lower moisture. With heating value comparable to coal, BioCoal can be used as co-firing with coal or full replacement of coal in the coal fired power plant.<\/p>\n<p>As the global reserves of fossil fuel diminish, BioCoal not only emerges as a sustainable and renewable energy source, but also presents significant business opportunities. Its development follows the concept of Bio-Circular-Green Economy (BCG), facilitating the sustainable development in economic, social, and environmental dimensions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/29-104_2-BioCoal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/29-104_2-BioCoal.jpg 972w, https:\/\/bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/29-104_2-BioCoal-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/29-104_2-BioCoal-768x677.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an agricultural-based country, Thailand has abundant agricultural waste with significant potential for energy production. A research team at NANOTEC-NSTDA, led by Dr. Sanchai Kuboon, conducted a research project to turn these by-products into BioCoal to be used in the coal fired power plant for electricity generation. \u00a0 The research team employed torrefaction technology to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":7021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[1063,1160,631,1161,1162,1053],"class_list":["post-7019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-agricultural","tag-biocoal","tag-nanotec","tag-sanchai-kuboon","tag-torrefaction","tag-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7022,"href":"https:\/\/bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions\/7022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcg.in.th\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}