Techno-economic assessment of biomass power plant fed with rice straw: sensitivity and parametric analysis of the performance and the LCOE
This study aims at analyzing the techno-economic feasibility of electric power generation from rice straw
in in Egypt. In particular, we attempt to estimate the energy production and the levelized cost of elec-
tricity (LCOE) at some selected provinces with high potential availability of rice straw. Accordingly, a
proposed configuration of biomass Rankine cycle power plant fed with rice straw is modeled and
simulated using System Advisor Model (SAM). The simulation shows that the average nominal and the