PUNE: In the last four months, the Bio-CNG plant of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) processed over 6,500 tonnes of organic waste.
“After Indore, Pune was the first municipal corporation to start a Bio-CNG plant. However, due to some technical issues, we had to shut it for 18 months. It was restarted in the month of May,” said PMC Joint Commissioner and Solid Waste Management Department Head Dnyaneshwar Molak.
With a capacity of 125 tonnes per day (TPD), the plant in Pune is the largest Bio-CNG plant in the country.
“Starting from processing five metric tonnes per day of wet waste, we now process around 125 metric tonnes of biodegradable garbage every day. In the past four months, we have processed over 6,500 tonnes of organic waste and generated around 186 tonnes of compressed biogas (CBG), out of which 137 tonnes was retailed from Indian Oil fuel station and 49 tonnes to Mahindra CIE,” Molak added.
He said the proposed capacity of the plant is to process 350 metric tonnes of waste per day, and the Bio-CNG generated here will soon be used for 50 CNG buses run by PMPML.
