PAU Teams up with Mumbai Firm to Revolutionize Biogas Plant Commercialization

PAU plans to expand operations at its biogas facility, which uses paddy as a raw material, in order to reduce environmental damage caused by straw burning. PAU's director of research, A S Dhatt, and corporate executives signed the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA).

According to the deal, the university grants the firm non-exclusive rights to generate revenue from the biogas facility. The plant is composed of mild steel sheet and uses above-ground technology.

It was conceived and developed under the ICAR-funded project All India Coordinated Research Project on Energy in Agriculture and Agro-based Industries (AICRP on EAAI). Experts explained how the plant works, saying that the most recent type of anaerobic digestion, i.e. dry fermentation of organic wastes, takes little manpower and produces biogas for three months.

A biogas plant is a structure that provides oxygen-free conditions for anaerobic digestion. Simply described, it is a man-made system that converts garbage into sustainable energy and fertilizers that benefit the environment.

According to them, the digested material produced by such anaerobic digestion is good grade manure appropriate for use in fields. They also stated that the plant has a 15-year lifespan because it is entirely above ground, and that quitting the plant is simple.

According to Usha Nara, plant breeder at TMIPRC, PAU has inked 319 MoAs and commercialized 77 technologies. She went on to say that eight memorandums of understanding for the paddy straw-based biogas plant built of mild steel sheet had been signed with various companies and firms.