Mumbai (NVI): Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided an aid of $2 million to the government of India to enable it to adopt clean energy measures like ethanol and biomass supply chain.
Vijay Sharma, Director in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, said there is a need to save future generations from increasing pollution of air and water, and the increasing global heat which has caused rise in sea water level.
“Percentage of carbon emission of developed countries is more than the developing countries, but the need of the hour is to adopt security norms by developing countries too,” he said.
“Compressed Natural Gas (Methane produces from west of sugar cane) is a fuel that can be used in place of gasoline, diesel fuel and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG),” he informed.
He said the Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) scheme has provided facilities to recreate power from waste substances like cow dung, waste of sugar and food waste.
“Biogas is produced naturally through a process of anaerobic decomposition from waste andbio-mass sources like agriculture residue, cattle dung, sugar cane press mud, municipal solid waste, sewage treatment plant waste, etc,” Sharma said.
“After purification, it is compressed and called CBG, which has a pure methane content of over 90%,” he added.
“SATAT was launched with a four-pronged agenda of utilizing more than 62 million metric tonnes of waste generated every year in India, cutting down import dependence, supplementing job creation in the country and reducing vehicular emissions and pollution from burning of agricultural and organic waste. Since 2018, 67 SATAT were launched all over the country,” he further added.
