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Mumbai’s Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will construct a biogas plant, which civic sources said is “the largest in Asia”, to scientifically process the city’s separated wet waste into compressed biogas (CBG). ). Confirming the development, a senior official in the civil authority, who asked not to be named, confirmed that the proposal to establish this plant came from the Federation’s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
BMC will construct this plant jointly with Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL), a public undertaking of Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL).
Civil Authority sources stated that the plant will have the capacity to process 1,000 tons of wet waste per day, making it the largest biogas plant in Asia.
Earlier, in October 2022, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurated the CBG plant in Sangror district of Punjab, which will produce 33 tons of gas per day by processing 300 tons of rice straw.
Presently, Mumbai generates 6,000 tons of solid waste, out of which 3,500 tons are wet waste, which includes wet, organic and biodegradable waste and the rest is dry waste, which includes non-degradable materials like plastic. The proposed plant will have a maximum capacity to process 1,000 tonnes of wet waste per day, which is nearly a third of the daily wet waste generated in Mumbai on a daily basis. This will be the largest biogas plant in Asia in terms of processing capacity and the basic idea behind setting up this plant is to recycle the city’s waste for a useful purpose.
“The basic idea behind setting up this plant is to ensure that there is production on site for the gas supply. We have set up a small pilot center for this plant at Haji, but this is the first time that such a large scale plant has been set up in Mumbai for gas production.
The sources of the civil authority said that BMC and MGL will sign a memorandum of understanding to build and operate this plant within the next few weeks.
BMC will provide the land to set up the plant, while MGL will carry out the capital expenditures. Sources in the civil authority stated that at present, three plots of land have been selected in the eastern suburbs, and the final decision will be made before the final agreement is signed. The plant will be operational within one year after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the two parties.
BMC officials said the civic body’s job will be to collect the wet waste from the sources, separate it and then supply it to the plant, while MGL will produce the gas by processing the waste and returning it to the city. According to officials, at present, the Solid Waste Management (SWM) division of BMC operates five vehicles in each municipal ward, which transport wet waste to scientific processing centers. “After this plant becomes operational, the amount of waste that is recycled will increase by a large percentage,” said an official.
Meanwhile, representatives for MGL declined to comment unless a final draft of the MOU is finalized.
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