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Guwahati Municipal Corporation is all set to transmute organic municipal wastes into some renewable natural resources for generation of power. This move has been made by GMC, in collaboration with a four-member alumni team of IIT and IIM.
During the inauguration ceremony of the Biomethanation Plant, which is the first-ever plant in the north-east area. This plant was installed at Ballpark in Chatribari on August 13, 2020.
The plant was inaugurated by Siddhartha Bhattacharya, GDD (Guwahati Development Department) Minister.
The project was led and executed by an IIT Guwahati alumnus, Madhurjya Das and an IIM Bangalore alumni. The aim was to offer green energy by providing the best solutions to the northeast and making it a garbage-free area.
The plant will generate 800 units of electricity and 450 Kgs of manure per day as a product of 5000Kgs segregated organic waste per day as input.
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According to Madhujya Das, an IIT Guwahati lad, “I have been able to contribute to my home city and the effort will be on to keep Guwahati city at par with the cleanest cities in India. The most satisfying was that I, with my team members, could do something visible for the city which gave me the identity’’.
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On the completion of MBA from IIM Bangalore, he had invested his skills in banking and financial services for a few years but could not use his skills for Mechanical Engineering at the same time, which was his first choice in IIT Guwahati.
Now as the Director of GPS Renewables, he can apply both his mechanical engineering as well as financial skills in making the city clean.
According to the Director, GPS Renewables, it has been said that they have patented the technology used in the plant and the same technology has also been used in some other plants installed by the company outside Northeast.
GMC and GPS Renewables have planned the installation of a Biomethanation plant at Beeliar which has a capacity of 5 TPD in generating power from the segregated solid municipal waste.
However, Biomethanation is the process of anaerobic digestion of biodegradable organic waste in an enclosed area under specific conditions of temperature and moisture etc.
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