25-Jan-2022 | Market Research Store
The Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) situated in Hyderabad has developed a new effort in collaboration with the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. Research and Development Center in Noida to make sure that biomass such as crops remaining is not going to waste through combustion and is instead converted into wealth.
As per the agreement, manufacturing-scale compressed biogas facilities will be installed for the processing of crop residues.
IICT has invented and licensed a significant rate bio methanation technique based on an Anaerobic Gas Lift Reactor to create biogas rich with methane and nutrient-rich bio compost in its quest to turn waste into income. The Bowenpally vegetable farm, which has won acclaim from PM Narendra Modi in his Mann Ki Baat, has already erected such a plant.
As per the IICT release, the BPCL and CSIR-IICT research and development center, Noida, signed an MoU in Dec 2021 to carry out an 18-month research project to utilize AGR technology and produce methane-rich biogas from nutrient bio manure by processing agricultural waste.
The press release stated, “The MoU includes the development of a pilot-scale reactor in the first phase and development of another novel digester in the second phase. Upon successful pilot reactor demonstration at IICT, the same process/product would be scaled up, validated, and deployed at BPCL R&D Centre in Noida.”
In October 2021, a team of experts from BPCL's Research and Development center came to CSIR-IICT to see the prototype biogas plant built on AGR technology that had been erected at IICT for the processing of waste produced in the kitchen of campus and to finalize the project's goals.
On December 23, 2021, a team from IICT, led by Dr. A. Gangagni Rao, Lead Scientist and Lead Researcher of the program, and Dr. D. Shailaja, Lead Scientist and Head, Business Development Group, recently visited the BPCL Research and Development Centre and signed a Memorandum of understanding to begin off the project.
IICT Director, Dr. V. M. Tiwari, stated “the teams at CSIR-IICT and BPCL R & D Centre are keenly looking forward to a fruitful product/process as an outcome. The successful execution of this project would create a paradigm shift in the biomass burning issue”.