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Biofuel powered transportation in India
In India a project was launched to transform sewage waste into biofuel in order to power public transportation and private cars with the fuel. Assisted by a dedicated team of Swedish professionals in this area, India is using their expertise that successfully implemented this technique in Sweden, in order to duplicate this success for use in their own cities.
In Sweden biofuel powered trains, cars and other vehicles have been successfully implemented, and the team seeks to duplicate this success in Chennai where the pilot is being held. In Chennai there are five plants capable of treating sewage waste, processing approximately 129 million gallons on a daily basis. Even more plants are in the works to increase this amount even further.
Producing the biofuel would turn out to be more cost effective than producing regular fossil based fuel. Compared to the production of diesel, the cost to produce biofuel would be 40% lower than the cost to produce regular diesel.
The TEDA, the organization for Energy Development along with the CMWSSB are in the process of constructing the transforming facilities to turn the waste into fuel, designed to power cars, public transportation and other vehicles assisted by the Swedish experts.
Once completed the goal is to have 200 bio powered buses running on the fuel on a daily basis, which will be equipped with engines that are capable of running on different types of fuel. To this end, negotiations with Ashok Leyland and Tata motors are in progress in order to obtain the contract for designing the buses for this project.
According to the experts, the manufactured biofuel will cause no residues and vehicles equipped for running on it will require less maintenance than regular fuel powered vehicles. In addition the emissions would also be less than the emissions of regular diesel based engines.
The transformation of waste into fuel is a win/win situation for all parties involved, it helps to stop global warming due to the decrease of emissions into the air, and less waste enters the environment as it gets used for the manufacturing of the fuel. Add to this the benefits of reduced costs and there really is no downside to this alternative form of energy.
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