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.
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.