To: goswami vivekSent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 2:42 PMSubject: ITS A GAS BIO GAS
San Antonio in the United States could become the first city to draw all its energy requirements from methane gas generated from the city's water treatment system through recycling 14,000 tonnes of biosolids in sewage annually. The methane source includes human waste that, if left untreated and unutilised, would only pollute soil and water.
Treating bio-waste, however, could generate an average of 1.5 million cubic feet of gas a day - enough to fill 1,250 tanker trucks daily - according to the system's chief operating officer. A by-product of human and organic waste, methane is the chief component of natural gas that can fuel generators, power plants and furnaces.
Closer home, gobar gas - natural gas obtained from methane released by cattle waste - as a green alternative to diesel and other fossil fuels has been taken up seriously, particularly in rural households. However, a lack of adequate hygiene is a constraint because the gas formation - in the large containers filled with gobar - makes the drum's lid rise, and there is spillage all around the plant. So, in India gobar gas plants are fertile breeding grounds for mosquitoes and other pests. But this is not an insurmountable problem. Gobar gas plants could be expanded and diversified to include energy extraction from all kinds of biomass and the gas so produced could fuel power stations - as San Antonio proposes to do - and with improved sanitation, the experiment could yield good results for several Indian cities.
As a renewable resource, biomass - either from plants, agriculture and forestry residues, animal or human waste - is biodegradable and so is far more eco-friendly than petroleum-derived fuels. And they are relatively easier to source and process, unlike the sophisticated instruments and know-how required to extract oil or refine coal. Ethanol derived from biofuels has a very high octane rating. It might deliver less energy than gasoline, but by blending about 10 per cent ethanol and petrol or diesel together, a feasible balance is achieved with no perceptible effect on fuel economy.
America's space agency NASA is sponsoring a joint project to turn human waste into a power source for spaceships using a process that could also produce other chemicals that can be used on board. Instead of turning up our noses at the idea of recycling human waste and other biosolids in sewage, it would be worthwhile to explore fully and exploit the immense potential hidden in what we routinely regard as being useless.
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Estimate of GHG abatement in tCO2 eq. 96893
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Name of Project "SESL 6 MW Municipal Solid Waste based power Project" at Vijayawada & Guntur, Andhra Pradesh by M/s Shriram Energy Systems Limited.
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Brief Description of the project The project is based on the Municipal Solid Waste/ Land disposal (MSW). It contributes to environmental improvement and social development in many ways while also extracting the economic value of wastes. The project proposes to provide opportunity to the rag pickers who can collect the same recyclables from the plant thereby providing employment to poor local folks specially women. The project helps in bettering the environment in the city by a hygiene treatment of solid waste, therefore improve health standards. Global benefits associated with the project are the ones associated with the reduction of green house gases (methane & CO2) which cause global warming.
1. Enkem Engineers Private Limited (Enkem) 824, Pooonamallee, Near KMC
High Road, Chennai-600010 Tel: +91 (044) 6411362, 6428992 Email: enkem99@md3.vsnl.net
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Name of Project "Methane recovery and power generation from sewage treatment plant by Surat Municipal Corporation, Gujarat, India" at Bhatar, Karanj and Singanpore of Surat District by M/s Surat Municipal Corporation.
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Converting Waste to Energy Not So Green
By Keya Acharya
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Brief Description of the project The purpose of the project essentially is to utilize available biomass in the region effectively for generation of electricity energy. This emphasis on conservation of environment through use of biomass fuel and Green House Gas (GHG) emission reduction, economic growth. The project has also reduced the ever-increasing demand and supply gap of electricity. The project has increase employment, create business opportunity for local stakeholders. Beside these, there are many benefits like:
Proper utilization of surplus biomass.
Generation of Eco-Friendly green power.
Reduction of CO2 emission etc.
Therefore this project has excellent environment benefits in terms of reduction of carbon emission and coal resource conservation.
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a2z Infrastructure commissions Asia's largest Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management Project in Kanpur ~ To set up India's first solid waste to power project in Kanpur; substantially powered by Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) ~
a2z Infrastructure had earlier commenced the processing and disposal of the solid waste in October 2009 and currently processes 1,500 tonnes of municipal solid waste per day from a population of 31,16,263 in the city. This project has contributed to the reduction of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions by avoiding the methane generation from the wastes at the landfills. The entire project complies with all specifications and norms of the Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organisation (CPHEEO). The project is the only Integrated Resource Recovery Facility (IRRF) with varied portfolio of derivatives from the garbage.
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Project Salient Features- (i) A unique project and first of its kind in the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) sector in India, where in the entire aspects of MSW management i.e from Primary collection to disposal, including storage, secondary transportation, integrated processing and disposal are being planned together. (ii) A SPV in name of in name of Guwahati Waste Management Company Private Limited (GWMCPL) (100% shareholding of which shall be taken over by the successful developer) has been set up for implementing an integrated waste management facility including an integrated waste processing facility at Boragaon in Guwahati. The project would process 350 tonnes of waste per day. The Project Cost is estimated at Rs.(INR) 5200 Lakhs with a construction period of two years. Under "Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM)"Scheme of Ministry of Urban Development, GoI the Grant of Rs (INR) 3516.71 Lakhs is approved for Solid Waste Management component. Out of total approved amount, approximately Rs31Crores of the grant is available to selected developer. (iii) The integrated waste processing facility would include conversion of Municipal Solid Waste into Compost, Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) and generation of power using RDF at the Boragaon landfill site on Public- Private-Partnership (PPP) basis.
The Scope of Selected developer will include following (iii) Segregated collection of MSW through door-to-door waste collection system in Municipal boundaries of Guwahati city. (iv) Street Sweeping and Drain de-silting activities in Municipal boundaries of Guwahati city. (v) Storage of collected segregated waste from door-to-door waste collection, street sweeping and drain desilting in Secondary Collection Points. (vi) Transportation of waste from Secondary Collection Points to Project Site. (vii) Establishment of a project facility for conversion of Municipal Solid Waste into Compost Plant, Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) and for generation of power using RDF at the Boragaon landfill site on Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis; (viii) To develop the Sanitary Landfill Site during the Term of the project (ix) To transport and dispose the Residual Inert Matter at the Landfill Site
For More Details Contact: Chief Executive officer, Infrastructure Development Corporation of Assam Limited Mezzanine Floor, Hotel Brahamputra Ashok Guwahati (Assam) Ph-0361-2731807 (D), 2732266,2732904, (M) 91-9954714226 Fax-0361-2731840 Email: shyam.mahanta@ilfsindia.com, manoj.panigraghi@ilfsindia.com, manoj.panigraghi@gmail.com
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Jaypee's Municipal Solid Waste Processing Plant inaugurated
The plant shall be operational after about three months when complete process gets stabilised, he informed. Set up at a cost of Rs.30 crores on a 10 acres land, the plant which is one of its kind in northern India, has the installed capacity to process 500 ton per day of municipal solid waste, which will be converted into refuse-derived fuel to be used in a thermal power plant in Ropar and a cement plant of Jaypee Group in Himachal Pradesh. Mr. Pradeep Mehra, Advisor to the Administrator, said that the leaves sheded by trees in the city, which is the greenest city in the country today, shall also be processed in the plant for converting to fuel pellets.
The plant is fully-covered to minimise exposure to atmosphere, and arrangements to spray culture on the garbage to eliminate insects, flies and odour have also been made. All critical equipment have been imported from Dopastadt Germany and the plant has been commissioned successfully in the supervision of German engineers, which has a fully-equipped laboratory, a workshop, and a fully-automatic control room, effluent treatment plant and fire safety equipment.
Notes to Editor
Jaypee Associates Limited is a Rs.4500 crore company that has set up in Chandigarh, the north India's first municipal waste processing plant at a cost of Rs.30 crore, in association with the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh.
All critical equipment i.e. primary shredder, secondary shredder, and ballistic separator have been imported from world renowned M/s Dopastadt Calbe Gmbh, Germany
Jaiprakash Associates Ltd
Vasant Vihar
New Delhi -110 057
India
Tel: 91/1126141540
URL: http://www.jilindia.com
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Bioreactor Landfills
Comprehensive Services
* Leachate quality and quantity characterization
* Leachate permitting services
* Negotiation assistance with receiving utilities
* Treatment/pretreatment facility design
* Leachate evaporation
* Leachate recirculation and bioreactor landfill design
* Storage and truck loading facilities
* Construction administration
* Start-up assistance
* Operations and maintenance services
http://www.mswmanagement.com/march-april-2009/gas-leachate-management.aspx
Tony Maxson is a client manager with the Cornerstone Environmental Group, an engineering consulting, and field service company serving the solid waste industry. He also chairs a bioreactor committee for SWANA.
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THE COMPOSTING PROCESS : Leachate Management
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