ASSESSMENT OF POWER POTENTIAL FROM CAJAN PEA AND PEANUT BIOMASS AND MIXED OF COAL & BIOMASS

Due to high energy potential and less pollutants, power generation from biomass is becoming an attractive way for energy generation. In the present work briquette of coal and biomass is prepared for power generation. The biomass component is separately mixed with coal sample in the ratio of (coal : biomass=96:04, 90:10, 86:14, 81:19 ) .The objective of this work is to asses s the energy contents of mixture and their power generation potential. The experimental work included with the determination of proximate analysis of coal and biomass & there mixture. The results have been shown that approximately 192.07 ha (in case of us e of coal - cajan pea briquette) and 890.73 ha (in case of use of coal - peanut shell briquette ) of land are required to generate power of 73×10 5 KWh/year.