A Pune based engineer Deepak Kanhere has developed a new Biogas model for the citizens of urban area, for whom availing Biogas plant can be a very easy option. Since he has developed an economical Biogas plant just for Rs. 2500/- this can be most easy for the nuclear families. From last 10 years he has been engaged in research and development of Biogas for which he founded “Shashwat Oorja Private Limited” in January 2008.
While speaking to Maharashtra Times Pune correspondent he reiterated the usefulness of this gadget for every household since it can cater its wet garbage in a range of half kilogram to two kilograms a day.
This compact Biogas plant comprising of 100 liters capacity PVC tank as a digester and 80 liters capacity stainless steel barrel as a gas holder. Besides this it has inlet pipe for feeding and an outlet pipe for slurry disposal. Half inch gas cock is fixed on top of the gas holder which is then connected to a single burner stove by means of a flexible PVC pipe.
Anyone who uses this Biogas plant can use food waste or leftover food, used tea powder, grain flour, peeling of fruits, vegetables in the plant which will roughly deliver 80 liters of Biogas per kilogram of feed material. The slurry disposed by the Biogas plant can be filtered easily and the same water can be reused for next day’s feeding. The filtered biomass is excellent manure which can be used for plants.
While talking to our correspondent he highlighted this as a good opportunity for the Self Help Groups (S.H.G.) of women through which they can generate an additional income for their groups and can further push awareness of this useful gadget to the society. At the same time this Biogas plant can be used in number of schools where the leftover food in the tiffin is taken cared and the produced Biogas can be used in Bunsen burner in the laboratory to carry out various heat related experiments done by the students. With this the school itself can become energy independent. Shashwat Oorja has a firm belief that being a part of society the problem crated by us need to be resolved by the individuals of the same society. And hence we are ready to guide for any such activity with a nominal fees as this is totally an environment friendly project said Deepak Kanhere.
