Biomass( Rice Straw) Fired

Boiler
Comparison with Coal
 Challenges for Biomass as Fuel
• Biomass having high percentage of chlorine (.3 to 1.2)
• High percentage of Volatile Matter (VM-48-60%)
• Ash is having high temperature corrosion properties on
the boiler tube specially super heater tubes
• Ash deposition on the Boiler tube surface
• Fuel is available in seasonal so huge storage is required
• Fuel management is also a big challenge ( fuel
collection to storage to feeding to Boiler)
 Comparison of Rice straw and coal analysis

Ultimate Analysis (% bt wt) Rice Straw Coal

Carbon 34-37 39.27
Hydrogen 3.8-4.5 2.8
Nitrogen 0.58 -0.9 0.92
Chlorine 0.3-1.2 0
Sulphur 0.15-0.61 0.55

Oxygen 22-32 9.18

Moisture 15-27 8
Ash 14-21 39
Proximate analysis    
Moisture 15-27 8
Ash 14-21 52-34
Volatile Matter 48-60 23-25
Fixed Carbon 14-28 22-26
GCV, Kcal/kg 2100-3350 3650-3890
Ash Fusion Temperature Comparison
IDT, DegC HT, Deg.C AFT, Deg.C

COAL 1180-1290 1425- 1500 1480- 1530

RICE STRAW 720 900 1040 Very Low, ash is

sticky in nature
and deposits
on the surface
of the tubes

IDT – Initial Deformation Temperature

HT- Hemispherical Temperature
AFT- Final Fusion Temperature
 Chemical Composition of Ash
Composition Coal Ash (%) Rice Straw Ash (%) Remarks
SiO2 37-68 54.35
Fe2O3 7.05-28 1.2
Al2O3 7.83-33 1.87
CaO 0.11-.96 4.48
MgO 0.24-1.27 4.93
TiO2 0.08-1.91 -
SO3 0.15-1.48 3.22
P2O5 0.15-2.95 0.11
K2O 0.14-.21 14.23 Due to present of
present of these
Na2O - 7.66 chemical IDT/AFT is
Cl - 6.27 lower in Rice straw
ash
 Fuel Collection
• Total rice straw requirement is 2laks Ton per
annum for 20MW capacity of Power Plant
• 100 acres of land is required to store
• 100 nos of supplier are required for collection
and store the rice straw in baler form from
1lak acres of land.
 Risk
• Fuel degradation
• Fire in fuel
 Boiler Technology
• Vibrating grate of Boiler technology
• Screw Feeders for Boiler Fuel Feeding system
• Super heater and water tube materials should be higher in
grade
• Soot blowing and cleaning mechanism should be required in
Furnace, Superheater and economiser zone
• Air preheater should be done by feed water
• Oxygen, CO analysers, Furnace temperatures and draft
measurement instruments should work
• Fly ash collection system should work properly
• Surface area is higher side as it has four pass system
Thank You