<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><article><front><Journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type='publisher'>CWE/615/2017</journal-id><journal-title >Current World Environment</journal-title><issn pub-type='PPub'>0973-4929</issn><issn pub-type='ePub'>2320-8031</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Enviro Research Publishers</publisher-name></publisher></Journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type='other'>CWE--31-00</article-id><title-group><article-title>Economic Evaluation of Different Size of Biogas Plants in Chhattisgarh (India)</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id='aff002'><sup>2</sup><instname></instname>,<deptname>Department of Farm Machinery and Power</deptname>, <instaddress>IGKV</instaddress>, <instcity>Raipur</instcity>, <instcountry>India</instcountry>.</aff><pub-date pub-type='ppub'><publicationDate>2015-04-30</publicationDate></pub-date><doi>10.12944/CWE.10.1.21</doi><volume>Volume 10</volume><issue>Volume 10</issue><abstract><title>Abstract</title><p>In order to determine the working efficiency and economical size of biogas plants in respect of house hold cattle and family members, a study was carried out during 2007-08 in Chhattisgarh State, India. Fifteen blocks were selected randomly covering 117 biogas plants. Out of them, 99 plants (85 %) were found in working condition for which economic analysis was carried out. Survey results revealed that economically different sizes of biogas plants i.e. 2- 8 m&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; were useful in the study area. On an average, the whole initial investment could be recovered in an about 3- 8 years. The annual income of different size of biogas plants from 2 m&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;, 3 m&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;, 4 m&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;, 6 m&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; and 8 m&lt;sup&gt;3 &lt;/sup&gt;will be Rs 3620, Rs 5273.6, Rs 4215, Rs 4565 and Rs 4612, respectively. The cost of operations of different size of biogas plants (2-8 m&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;) were observed in the range 2.73- 4.0 Rs/h. The size of most economical biogas plant was 3 m&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; (B/C= 1.23) followed by 2 m&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; (B/C= 1.06).</p></abstract><kwd-group><title>Keywords</title><kwd>Bioga</kwd><kwd> Economic analysis</kwd><kwd> Biogas plants survey</kwd><kwd> B/C ratio</kwd></kwd-group><counts><ref-count count='' /><page-count count='' /></counts></article-meta></front></article>