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The authors expressed their heartfelt gratefulness to Almighty Allah for his utmost blessing for the successful completion of the book.This study aimed at assessing utilization of biomass for renewable energy supply in rural area. Natural gas and mineral sources of energy (coal and oil) is in depleting state measurably and stored mineral energy would be used soon due to diversified use of this including rural households. Besides this, rural biomass is source of soil organic matter and plant nutrient which is destroyed by abuse of them. If the research work is implemented, the present biomass resources availability, requirement and energy use pattern in rural areas would be known which will provide knowledge for development of a fittest technology for efficient use of rural biomass. In addition this, renewable energy reserve would be increased which will reduce the importation of oil and fuel.On the other hand, our environmental concerns is the potentiality of the global climate change due to increase in the Co2 and green house gases in the atmosphere that resulted from human intervention in the nature.So, this book is helpful to enhance the knowledge about the biomass energy.

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Muhammad Rashed Al Mamun has been working as a teacher in the Dept. of Farm Power & Machinery,Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU),Sylhet,Bangladesh after completion of BSc in Agricultural Engineering and MS in Farm Power & Machinery. His major area of research interest is Renewable energy. He is the eldest son of Md. Abdul Bashed and Mahfoza Begum

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