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Thailand is an agricultural country, after harvesting there will be a large amount of agricultural waste left which could be use as biomass energy. Biomass is the production of industrial-agricultural waste such as rice husk, bagasse fiber and palm shell. Usually, industrial sectors use fossil fuels, including fuel crude oil, diesel, cooking gas (LPG), coal because of its high heating value, its being convenient to use and to transportation, and fuel prices are not high. Ten years ago, petroleum price has increased accordingly to the fuel price mechanism in the global market. As a result, industrial sectors, instead of using petroleum fuel, used biomass fuel to replace petroleum fuels to reduce cost of production and to eliminate waste in the plant. At the present time, industrial plants and power plants have increased their demand for biomass and as a result, prices increased dramatically and biomass and fuel shortages have been experienced in many areas. Therefore, factories and power plants using biomass have to stop operation due to lack of sufficient biomass fuel.