Rice Mill Research Paper

EXPLORATION ON BIOMASS POWER FOR DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT

Pratyasha Tripathy*, C.K.Panigrahi* and B.Ghosh**

*School of Electrical Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India

**Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Newcastle University, UK

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Abstract – India being an agricultural country, its economy depends primarily on agriculture. The eastern and south eastern part of the country has rice as their staple food. Processing of the rice require 1200 calorie of heat and 30Wh of electricity. Most of the rice mills are in rural areas and are either parboiling type or raw type. Owing to lack in quality electricity, the rice millers opt for captive power sources run by the diesel fuel. However, with rise in the price of

They are hot-dry, hot-humid, cold-humid and cold-dry. Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy as 70-74% of the people are involved in agricultural activities like plantation, harvesting and processing. Eastern and southeastern part of the country produces rice as their common food. Processing of the rice require nearly 700Kcal of heat and 3 units of electricity. Most of the rice mills are adjacent to the agriculture producing areas. As a result, rice industry becomes a local area based industry. These rice mills are normally 2 types – parboiling type and raw type. In parboiling rice, the raw paddy is purged with steam and then they are again heated to boil and finally milled [1]. Raw rice is directly milled directly thus the agricultural industries require both thermal and electrical

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