Context: IndianPrime Minister will virtually inaugurate Asia’s largest Bio-CNG plant at Indore in Madhya Pradesh.
Key takeaways
This Bio CNG plant will be operated from 100% wet waste.
This plant is built on PPP mode, from which Indore Municipal Corporation will get revenue of 2.5 crores per annum.
About 400 buses of Indore can be run daily with the gas generated from the Bio-CNG plant.
Mission directors of Swachch Bharat Mission from about 20 states of the country will also participate in the programme.
Important value addition
Coal, crude oil and natural gas are all fossil fuels and are used to produce diesel, gasoline, and kerosene.
Fossils fuels formed millions of years ago from the remains of organic matter from dead animals and plants.
As fossil fuel resources are finite and are among the biggest contributors to climate change, it is critical that we meet our energy needs from renewable resources.
India’s renewable energy resource potential is significant, with solar, wind, biomass, and small hydropower representing the technologies having the largest potential.
Among all, biomass warrants special attention.
All the living matter present on earth derived from growing plants including algae, trees, and crops or from animal manure is called biomass.
Anaerobic digestion of biomass is the process in which organic matter, in the absence of oxygen, is mainly transformed into a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide which is usually referred to as biogas.
Biomethane can also be compressed and bottled into cylinders and it is called Bio-Compressed Natural Gas (Bio-CNG) or simply Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG)
