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 Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology (CCET) is one of the top finest Government engineering college which is an affiliated college of the Panjab University. CCET, formerly known as Central Polytechnic Chandigarh (CPC), was establishe ...

, 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

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from agricultural and forest residues. This project was India's first biomass pelletizing 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 (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 Petroleum Conservation Research Association award. This project was supported by TePP (the Technopreneur Promotion Programme, 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 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 biomass pyrolyser for making torrefied biomass as well as biochar and applied patent foe same. His company established India's first Rice Straw based torrefied pellet plant in punjab state.

Awards

His efforts won him an

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in 2005, which was given by HRH Prince Charles. 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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