Ramesh Nibhoria is an Indian Punjabi

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and

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, and creator of biomass pellet fueled cook stove.

Business

After completing Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology, Nibhoria worked in various shop floor jobs and eventually reached executive level mechanical engineering positions. In February 1996, after 12 years in the engineering field, Nibhoria started Ess Aar Energies with the assistance of the Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), an autonomous organisation under the

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. Located near Chandigarh, the company manufactured biomass briquettes from agricultural and forest residues. This project was India's first biomass

pelletizing Pelletizing is the process of compressing or molding a material into the shape of a pellet. A wide range of different materials are pelletized including chemicals, iron ore, animal compound feed, plastics ( nurdles), waste materials, and more. Th ...

plant. In 2000 he started manufacturing Sanjha Chulha (Earth Stoves), a biomass briquette fired community kitchen stove, to negate the need for

liquefied petroleum gas Liquefied petroleum gas, also referred to as liquid petroleum gas (LPG or LP gas), is a fuel gas which contains a flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases, specifically propane, Butane, ''n''-butane and isobutane. It can also contain some ...

(LPG).

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s were installed at

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Schools at

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, Punjab and Chandigarh. The users save 50% while replacing LPG with biomass briquette cooking. This invention won a

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award. This project was supported by TePP (the Technopreneur Promotion Program, run by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India). He invented many bioenergy technologies and till August, 2018 he applied 13 patents. He established Nishant

Bioenergy Bioenergy is a type of renewable energy that is derived from plants and animal waste. The Biomass (energy), biomass that is used as input materials consists of recently living (but now dead) organisms, mainly plants. Thus, Fossil fuel, fossil fu ...

Consultancy and Nishant Bioenergy (P) Limited. Company has proprietary technologies of pellet cook stoves, burners and biomass pellet manufacturing and establishes franchisees. Till 2018, 21 franchisees were operational. https://twitter.com/nibhoria In the year 2022, he developed very innovative high temperature continuous Pyrolyser for making biochar or torrefied biomass and applied patent for same. Technology is developed in collaboration with NETRA, NTPC. His startup LWP BIOCOAL llp (www.nishantbiocoal.com), established India's first Rice Straw based torrefied pellet plant in Punjab state. As on February, 2025 he is executing 5 projects having total capacity 300 Ton Per Day capacity.

Awards

His efforts won him an

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in 2005, which was given by

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. In 2006, the UN Human Settlement Programme, Kenya judged his project as promising practices. He is a fellow of Global Social Benefiting Incubator (GSBI), 2007 (2013). GSBI is run by the University of Santa Clara, San Jose, California. In 2006 he was invited to Skoll World Forum, Oxford. He was invited to the

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lecture on climate change at Cambridge University. In the year 2016 his projects won WAF Award. He was also shortlisted as semifinalist at Global Clean Tech Innovation Programme (GCIP) in the year 2016

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