Online Certificate Course Utilizing Municipal Solid Waste and Agricultural Residue for Generating Bio-CNG : CSE
Last date to apply July 1, 2023 | 🗓️July 6-10, 2023 | Learning Platform: Zoom
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable.
The scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. In other words, working India’s democracy. This is what we aim to do.The challenge, we see, is two-pronged. On the one hand, millions live within a biomass based subsistence economy, at the margins of survival.
The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, opportunity to bring about change is enormous.But it will need a commitment to reform – structural reform- in the way we do business with local communities.
On the other hand, rapid industrialization is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth.
Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and in pushing for answers, transforming these into policy and so practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications.
Urban India generates close to 1.57 lakh metric tonne (MT) of municipal solid waste (MSW) every day: of this, 50-60 per cent is biodegradable waste. A significant fraction of the biodegradable waste continues to end up in dumpsites, triggering generation of gases like methane and carbon dioxide, which ultimately contribute to global warming and several other environmental and health hazards.
But herein lies an opportunity: if this enormous amount of biodegradable waste is processed using appropriate technologies, urban India has the potential to produce approximately 3,923 tonne of bio-CNG every day, with an estimated market value of Rs 27.46 crore. The revenue to be earned each year by simply treating the biodegradable waste to make bio-CNG is estimated at over Rs 10,000 crore. While we frantically search for alternative fuels, here is a resource that is ready to be used! We simply need to equip ourselves with technologies and procedures for managing biodegradable waste differently.
According to the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoP&NG), India has a reserve of 594.49 million metric tonne (MMT) of crude oil and 1,339.57 billion cubic meter (BCM) of natural gas. The country currently imports nearly 87.30 per cent of its crude oil requirements and about 50 per cent of natural gas requirements. Treatment of biodegradable waste to produce bio-CNG, therefore, should be seen as a potential game changer. Steps are afoot to popularise the use of biogas. To foster a circular economy, the government’s GOBARDhan scheme has allocated Rs 10,000 crore in the Union budget for 2023-24 to establish 500 biogas plants, including 200 plants for compressed biogas (CBG), with 75 of them located in urban areas, and 300 community or cluster-based plants.
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) invites you to join its online training programme on bio-CNG – the technologies available, its management, and associated economic and environmental benefits.
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
- Bio-gas – technology, capital requirement, operational expenditure
- Protocol for installation and pre-requisites
- Purification technology for bio-CNG
- Policy mandate, subsidies and various government schemes •Economic and environmental benefits
- Case studies from India
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Who will benefit
- Waste generators
- Waste management practitioners
- Waste management industry representatives
- Officials from Central and state urban departments and Urban Local Bodies
- Academicians
- Anyone aspiring to work in the waste management sector
Course fees
Rs. 1,500 for Indian participants
US $25 for foreign participants
Course Date July 6-10, 2023
COORDINATOR
Kaifee Jawed
Programme Officer
Solid Waste Management and Circular Economy Unit
Centre for Science and Environment
Email: kaifee.jawed@cseindia.org
Contact: +91 9755411810, 8383986473
