GREEN POWER FROM WASTE IN DURGAPUR

Durgapur Municipal Corporation is soon going to sign a memorandum of understanding with Hyderabad-based Selco for green-energy-from-garbage project.The West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation (WBGEDC) will be the technical adviser for the project. Power will be generated from about tonnes of garbage every day,the project will help conserve electricity and also generate revenue.The project is an attempt to minimise the use of conventional energy as far as possible to tackle the problem of global warming and climate change.Experts said apart from generating green power, the project could also solve the problem of garbage piling up at the dumping ground.The developer will foot the project cost, power generated from garbage may be costlier than that generated from coal, but it would help earn the corporation valuable revenue for its clean development mechanism (CDM).The garbage would be put into the plant's machine that will create a jerk to separate solid and heavy waste materials. The lighter waste materials left in the machine would then be passed onto a dryer. Drying would convert the waste into Refuse-Derived Fuel (RDF) a special kind of fuel which would ultimately generate power.