Initiative towards Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) and India’s vision of our Hon’ble Prime Minister towards India’s energy future is based on four pillars, namely energy access, energy efficiency, energy sustainability, and energy security. Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG) is one of the most economical clean fuels available in the environment.
Using Compressed Bio Gas is a WIN-WIN situation for our country in the present scenario when most of the cities do not have breathable air. One of the reasons for air pollution is stubble burning. A Compressed Bio Gas plant uses stubble as raw material and converts that into Bio Gas which is used as a clean fuel and can reduce the usage of CNG.
Today we import a clean fossil fuel which in turn reduces our forex, using CBG in place of CNG will help reduce CNG bills by 40%. CBG can directly replace CNG and doesn’t need any major change in filling stations. IOCL has already identified multiple filling stations which can be used for CBG filling. CBG can also be filled in the same CNG cylinders.
Production and usage of CBG will reduce the country’s dependency on the import of crude oil but will also generate employment in the rural areas and will increase farmers’ income.
GOBARDHAN, waste to wealth is a policy initiated by GoI in 2018. The main purpose of GOBARDHAN is to keep villages clean, increase rural income, and generate clean energy and organic manure from cattle waste.
Solid by-products of CBG can be used as bio-manure which can enhance agricultural output. Thus, the entire CBG value chain has economic and environmental advantages – waiting to be tapped by entrepreneurs.
Typical Biogas plants depend on anaerobic digestion. This is a fermentation process where the waste is digested by microbes to produce methane gas (biogas).
The waste is then used in two ways –
Biogas is one of the most frequently used fuels in rural areas due to its low cost of set-up and also due to the easy availability of waste materials. Almost any type of organic waste can be used in the fermentation process, however, factors such as pH levels and temperature affect gas production.
More than 4 million tons of garbage are produced every day across the world. It becomes quite overwhelming to store such an amount of waste. This storage is one of the most dangerous ways of spreading pollution – land, water, and air.
Resulting in underwater contamination, unpleasant smell, and degrading the quality of the soil. Therefore, collecting the waste from such disposal areas and converting it to produce cleaner energy can protect our environment from pollution.
Where ever we have Biogas plants in the world, it has produced lots of job opportunities for the people in and around. from plant workers, machine operators to landfill gas technicians, biogas production expansions have supported many individuals. They are one of the biggest job providers to a large number of green jobs for rural areas.
As no there is no involvement of the combustion process during the anaerobic digestion of bio-wastes, the whole process of biogas creation is emission-free. Therefore, using biofuel as a main source of energy can help contain global heating.
Though carbon dioxide is one of the main components of biogas, the amount of pollutants released during the whole process is comparatively less than that produced by fossil fuels. Biogas is a clean, green, and renewable source of energy that can reduce the world’s dependence on fossil fuels.
Biogas is a source of clean energy that uses organic waste. Biogas is a biodegradable and inexpensive source of energy that generates employment for many by reducing the burden on our environment caused by the waste produced by human activities.
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