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公開日:2022/03/31 / 最終更新日:2022/03/31
Hyderabad’s Bowenpally Market’s Vegetable Waste Generates Electricity, Biofuel
The plant started with one tonne and now it has gone up to 10 tonnes. Srinivas recalled that the initiative for the project came from B. Janardhan Reddy, Commissioner of Agriculture and Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation and G.
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The layout and design for the plan were taken care of by Ahuja Engineering Services. They installed the plant under the guidance of Dr. A Gangagno Kao, chief scientist of CSIR-IICT. Every shred of waste from the vegetables, fruit, and flowers is being converted into eco-friendly power sources and organic manure at Bowenpally vegetable market in Secunderabad. She added that apart from generating electricity and biofuel, the plant is also generating organic manure that can be used in farming. Ten tonnes of waste which would have just piled up at some landfill is now generating biofuel and biomanure,” she says.
Bowenpally vegetable marketOn days when this market cannot generate 10 tonnes of waste on their own, neighboring local vegetable markets and supermarkets pitch in. Generally, when we think of a vegetable and fruit market all that comes to our mind is fruits and vegetables scattered on the ground, bustling crowds, and vendors bargaining with the customers. Many times there’s a foul odor due to rotten vegetables and all of this generates a huge amount of waste every day.
Additionally, awareness has increased among the vegetable vendors. The vendors now try to follow sustainable practices that are good for the environment. A rest and recreation house , canteen, a Shubhojana food centre and an electronic weighing bridge, besides mineral water supply, public toilets, are a few of the amenities provided for the vendors. The market works under the agricultural marketing department of Telangana.
Designed by the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology the plant has been set up at a cost of Rs 2 crore. It is funded by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and Bowenpally Market. “The plant was started in phased manner and now it has started full-fledged operations,” said Harsha, who was secretary of Bowenpally Market when the project was initiated. In the past five years, Dr. Rao and his team has worked on improving the efficiency of the compactor and right sizing the machinery to ensure less space is used.
The biofuel is supplied into a 100% biogas generator which is used to power the water pumps, cold storage rooms, street and shop lights. But, at the Bowenpally fruit and vegetable market in Hyderabad, the vegetable waste generated is used to power street lights and shops. Hen you think of vegetable and fruit markets in India, you’re often met with messy visuals of vegetable shavings trampled on the floor, bustling crowds and bargaining vendors.
It is headed by selection grade secretary covering five mandals viz. Maredpally, Trimulgherry, Musheerabad, Secunderabad and Balanagar with 32 villages under its jurisdiction. The market, which opens at 5 am every day, sees an annual turnover of Rs 250 crore. The success of the Bowenpally biogas plant led the DBT to sanction five more projects in Hyderabad itself. With people having kicked off the Diwali celebrations on Thursday with fireworks, several streets and bylanes in commercial areas in the city were found littered with festival waste on Friday. Plating up a hot meal of sambar or rasam-rice has now become an expensive affair for many households, courtesy the spiralling cost of vegetables — especially tomato, potato and carrot.
Excess rains in Telangana for the past few weeks has led to massive crop damage in the state triggering a rise of per cent in vegetable prices. With a majority of the vegetables arriving from neighbouring states, rise in fuel and transportation charges has also added to the vegetable cost. He pointed out that almost 10 tonnes of waste generated at the market every day is collected in the plant. “The research at CSIR-IICT began in 2006 to find ways to produce biogas from vegetable, fruit and food waste.
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