Perspective of Estimated Energy Generation from Livestock Dung for an Indian State Punjab
| Author(s) | : | Gagandeep Kaur, Yadwinder. Singh. Brar, D. P. Kothari |
| Institution | : | Department of Electrical Engineering, I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University Main Campus, Jalandhar, India |
| Published In | : | Vol. 4, Issue 10 — October 2017 |
| Page No. | : | 166-171 |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
In this paper an investigation to access the available livestock dung based renewable energy source has beencarried out for the Indian state Punjab. Punjab being an agriculture state has enough livestock population andcorrespondingly livestock dung. Estimation shows that state has 8.1 million livestock population and from that 62886million kg of dung is produced every year. Assessment presents that the dung has an immense potential to generate 11.9TWh of electrical energy per year through anaerobic digestion process of biogas production. About 25% of this dung isused for power generation, family type biogas plants, manure and as biofuel. The leftover of this dung is considered aswaste and leads to environmental pollution. Study supports that energy production from this resource could be beneficialto meet the growing power demand of state and will help in waste management.
Gagandeep Kaur, Yadwinder. Singh. Brar, D. P. Kothari, “Perspective of Estimated Energy Generation from Livestock Dung for an Indian State Punjab”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 10, pp. 166-171, October 2017.
