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Hostel to cook food with bio-gas

Friday, 20 December 2013 06:15 administrator
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Deccan Herald             20.12.2013 

Hostel to cook food with bio-gas

Soon, the inmates of the hostel at Government Deaf and Dumb School, Tilak Nagar, in the city, will savour food prepared with an alternative source of energy. 

The Mysore City Corporation (MCC) has plans to install a 100-kg capacity biogas plant at the school at an estimated cost of Rs 8.5 lakh.

Sources in the MCC told Deccan Herald, the project, being funded by the civic body, will be implemented with the technical expertise of the National Institute of Engineering (NIE), Centre for Renewal Energy and Sustainable Technologies (CREST), based in the city.

The said plant is anticipated to reduce the burden of energy requirement by at least 10 per cent of its daily requirement. Now, the hostel uses a large quantity of LPG cylinders to keep the hearth running at the hostel, located on the school campus. A minimum of 19 LPG cylinders to a maximum of 25 are used for cooking food every month. The hostel, which has a strength of 90 students, provides food three times a day — breakfast, lunch and dinner — besides beverages during the evening hours. During festivals, it will be a sumptuous treat for the appetite with a mix of sweets and side dishes, Superintendent of the School H R Srinivas told this paper.

At present, the hostel generates kitchen waste of up to two kg a day. To fill the gap (as the plant needs 100 kg of waste), MCC will be diverting wet wastes like used vegetables, refuse or even peels of vegetables collected from different parts of the city; from both domestic and commercial sources. On an average, 400 tonnes of waste is collected from 65 wards of the city daily, comprising 60 per cent dry waste and 40 per cent vegetable waste.

Other plants

Recently, the Postal Training Centre at Nazarbad, in the city, commissioned a 60-kg biogas plant for its canteen, with the technical expertise provided by NIE-CREST. Similarly, Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens, Administrative Training Institute (ATI) and K R Hospital boast of a 100-kg plant each.