BIO GAS Renewable alternative to CNG. Compressed Bio Gas (CBG)- The Fuel of the Future
Biogas is rapidly gaining importance in India's renewable energy basket as it has a favorable CO2 footprint. Biogas is formed by the biological transformation of a large variety of organic wastes. It primarily consists of Methane (CH4) : (55-65%); Carbon Dioxide (CO2) : (35-45%); Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) : (0-3%); Moisture (Saturated).
Biogas offers multi-prolonged benefits to society like-
1. Extraction of value from waste.
2. Reduction of imported fossil fuel
3. Safe and responsible disposal of bio-waste
4. Suitable for distribution as well as industrial-scale production
5. Can tackle a variety of municipal and industrial waste
6. Employment Generation.
However, the biogas needs to be upgraded (purified) to remove undesired components like CO2, H2S, and moisture in order to-
1. Enhance the calorific value of biogas to the natural gas equivalent.
2. To avoid corrosion in pipeline/burners/engines handling the biogas
3. To make it suitable to be used as Compressed Biogas (CBG) which is hailed as an alternative vehicular fuel of the future or as PNG equivalent fuel for domestic and industrial use.
Through the Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) scheme Government of India has envisioned the establishment of 5000 CBG plants by 2023.
CSIR IIP, Dehradun has developed a Vacuum Swing Adsorption Process for the up-gradation of raw biogas to pipeline quality bio-methane.
ft. Dr. Swapnil Divekar & Dr. Soumen Das Gupta, Scientists CSIR IIP
Chapters-
0:00 - Coming up
0:50- Introduction
1:40- What is biogas?
2:55 -How is biogas produced?
3:48- Methane- Good, bad, and ugly facts
5:20- Biogas can be used as a renewable fuel and reduce India's natural gas imports
6:10- Biogas from Parali
9:08- Challenges associated with setting Compressed Bio-gas plants
10:42 - Proper waste segregation is important for Biogas production.
11:41- The challenge to produce BIOGAS from Parali.
13:20- Challenge to produce BIOGAS from- "Press mud" - Sugar Industry Waste
14:04 - BIO-GAS Renewable alternative to CNG
19:17- By when can CNG be completely replaced by CBG.
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