The Tirupur Corporation is all set to build a bio-Compressed Natural Gas (bio-CNG) bottling plant where organic degradable wastes generated in the city would be converted into CNG that could be used to run automobiles.
As the first step, the Corporation administration had now signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Council of Scientific and Industrial Research- Central Leather Research Institute (CSIR-CLRI) for the preparation of Detailed Project Report and development of suitable technology.
“We are expecting to get the DPR prepared in six months and the project will come up under the concept of ‘waste to wheel’”, said City Engineer G. Ravi.
P. Shanmugam, Principal Scientist at CSIR-CLRI who is also the project leader for the bio-CNG plant project, told The Hindu that the project would be implemented on public private partnership (PPP) model.
“Under this, a new plant with the capacity of converting 100 tonnes of organic degradable waste per day into bio-CNG will be set up. Apart from that, we will also upgrade the 10 tonne capacity pilot biogas plant presently been functioning in Tirupur city and make it suitable for producing bio-CNG”, he said.
Currently, nearly 520 tonnes of mixed municipal solid wastes get generated every day in Tirupur city of which 100-odd tonnes were organic degradable wastes. The two plants would have a cumulative capacity to produce 300 bio-CNG cylinders per day (each cylinder holds 14 kg).
“Each kilogram of CNG will cost much lesser than fossil fuels and give more mileage to the vehicles”, pointed out Mr. Shanmugam.
