3 Bio CNG plants to be set up by GCC to bring down organic and food wastes by 300 tonnes
Posted on: 02/Aug/2019 10:09:10 AM
The news that has now come out is GCC or Greater Chennai Corporation would be setting up as many as 3 bio CNG plants to bring down the amount of organic and food waste entering its landfills by 300 tonnes by next month. Information gathered is these 3 bio CNG plants would bottle compressed natural bi gas produced from the bio waste.
In the next week, tenders would be called for and this was according to the commissioner, Mr. G. Prakash. Private-public partnership would play an important role in the setting up of these 3 plants. It must be noted that the private company would be the in-charge of manufacture and maintenance of the plants. An amount of Rs 9.3 crores would be spent on setting of these 3 plants in places like Pallikaranai, Sholinganallur and in the abandoned asphalt complex in Anna Nagar.
Last month in the state assembly, rural and municipal administration minister, Mr. Velumani made many heads turn when he announced the setting up of one such plant. Point is the civic body has now decided to set up three such plants. Similar plants were set up at Mahindra World City and this was according to Mr. Madhusudhan Reddy, corporation deputy commissioner. He then threw light about the presence of such plant in Tirupati and how the plants would be expanded to handle 100 tonnes in the future.
Information is 384 tonnes of wet waste gets processed by the civic body and this is under various projects including 33 bio-mechanisation plants. Raw biogas cannot be used as a fuel but its compressed and purified form finds use as an automotive fuel is known.
The bio CNG plant present at Mahindra World City processes 8 tonnes of food and kitchen waste into 1000 cubic meters of raw bio gas. Later, enrichment of this raw biogas is done to yield 400 kg of purified CNG grade fuel every day. As a by product every day, 4 tonnes of organic fertilizer is also produced. The superb information is bio CNG could replace CNG as an automotive fuel (for CNG buses and tractors) and LPG for cooking purposes and to power street lights.
There are as many as 17 operational bio CNG plants in 9 states and the state of Maharashtra has got the highest number of plants. This was as per a report by Citizen Consumer and Civic Action Group persons, Mr. Jeyakumar and Mr. Vamsi Sankar. It should be taken into account that the combined capacity of these 17 plants is 46,178 kg per day. It is well known that for dry waste incinerators in places like Madhavaram, Manali and Tirivottriyur has been planned by the corporation of Chennai. The point is out of 5500 tonnes of waste generated every day 55 percent is wet waste.
