KANPUR:
Kanpur Gaushala Society has proposed to generate
compressed gobar gas (CGG) in order to create
awareness about the utility of cow dung.
Plant for CGG was ready at Bhauti Gaushala but
the society members said paucity of funds might
delay the project. The general secretary of Kanpur
Goshala Society Purushottam Lal Toshniwal told
the Times News Network that a team of the scientists
from Delhi would soon arrive at Bhauti Goshala
to discuss about the utility of cows and bullocks
in the agriculture.
A project report prepared by the goshala revealed
that the gobar gas after a special chemical process,
could be bottled in cylinders to be use as fuel.
Research study also indicated that like compressed
natural gas (CNG) the gobar gas also contains
about 50-60 per cent of methane which is main
ingredient of burning fuel as liquid petroleum
gas (LPG).
An assessment of consumption of energy at nation-level
reveals that about 30 per cent of total energy
consumed is in the form of 'bio-natural gases.'
The environment friendly gobar gas -- also a form
of bio-natural gas -- is generated in gobar gas
plants working on the phenomenon of 'anaerobic
fermentations.' In the plant, the cattle manure
is utilised to produce gas in the absence of air.
Developing nations like India where more than
70 per cent of population still depends upon agriculture,
gobar gas is of immense value.
"The
bio-natural gobar gas is in fact an environment
friendly mixture of various gases like methane,
hydrogen, carbon-dioxide, nitrogen and water (vapour).
During research, it is also found that average
gross energy in the gobar gas is about 53,000
kilo calories per cubic metre. It is a good form
of alternative of energy, according to Dr Bhattacharya,
a research scholar engaged by the Gaushala society
for the CGG project. The gas could also be used
as alternative to liquid petroleum gas and it
could meet the increasing demand of energy particularly
in remote areas of the nation," he opined.
According to Bhattacharya, several gobar gas plants
lot of surplus gas is available especially from
bigger gobar gas plants. The excess gas of these
plants is collected in a big vessel through inter-connecting
all the plant with a narrow pipe. The gas is later
collected in a big vessel containing solution
of lime water. In this vessel, the lime water
solution separates carbon-di-oxide gas from the
gobar gas. After processing the residue can also
be used as fertiliser because of excess of potassium
content in it. Then, the gas is passed through
a vessel of activated charcoal and later after
compressing it on high pressure, the gas can be
bottled in cylinders. In fact, these cylinders
of compressed gobar gas (CGG) can be used anywhere
at a much cheaper cost than LPG.
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