Prakash Diesels launches bio-mass based genset
Vishal Sharma
New Delhi/ Agra. Almost four months after it successfully developed a completely radical form of power-generating set, Agra-based Prakash Diesels Pvt Ltd held the formal commercial launch of their latest innovation—a 100 per cent bio-mass based genset—on Saturday.
Talking to the mediapersons on this occasion, Rajesh Garg, Director (Technical), Prakash Diesels Pvt. Ltd. said that the generating set that is capable of producing electricity in the range of 15 to 50 KWh had been developed by the company in early December and was being subjected to trial runs in a couple of rice mills & leather tanneries where the genset was being fed with rice-husk and leather scrap to generate electricity that was pollution - free to a large extent, even better than CNG based gensets.
After running the genset successfully in trial conditions, the company decided to introduce the genset in the market as a cheap method of electricity co-generation in rice-mills, sugar mills etc. that generate a lot of bio-waste that could be used in this genset.
The only condition was that the bio-mass to be used in the genset should be upto 80 percent free from moisture that was converted into a cocktail of hydrogen and other inflammable gases through a gasifier that formed the major part of this power plant.
He said that this genset was ideal for generating electricity in rice-mills etc. as it could produce upto 1 KWh of electricity with the cost of just Rs. 1.50.
According to Garg, the Union Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources had even approved a subsidy of Rs. 10 thousand per KWh for purchasing this genset.
At present, he said, the company would be manufacturing only 15-50 KWh gensets that shall cost between Rs. 4 lac to 12 lacs but later on, there were plans to go higher up in the range and produce gensets with capacity of 100 KWh and above to cater to the electricity needs of larger industries and even complete villages.
According to Garg, the company had already received orders for installing 16 units at various places in Bharatpur and Jamshedpur and by the end of this year, the company expected to achieve the target of installing atleast 300-400 units in the entire country, specially in the states of Maharashtra, Bihar and Jharkhand, where the rice mills were in plenty.
Apart from the domestic business, he said, the company had begun receiving a number of queries from importers in African countries who were interested in installing these units there owing to the high costs of electricity in Africa compared to India.
He said that this genset would prove to be the best and cheapest alternative to regular electricity due to the high availability of bio-mass in Africa.
Talking to the mediapersons on this occasion, Rajesh Garg, Director (Technical), Prakash Diesels Pvt. Ltd. said that the generating set that is capable of producing electricity in the range of 15 to 50 KWh had been developed by the company in early December and was being subjected to trial runs in a couple of rice mills & leather tanneries where the genset was being fed with rice-husk and leather scrap to generate electricity that was pollution - free to a large extent, even better than CNG based gensets.
After running the genset successfully in trial conditions, the company decided to introduce the genset in the market as a cheap method of electricity co-generation in rice-mills, sugar mills etc. that generate a lot of bio-waste that could be used in this genset.
The only condition was that the bio-mass to be used in the genset should be upto 80 percent free from moisture that was converted into a cocktail of hydrogen and other inflammable gases through a gasifier that formed the major part of this power plant.
He said that this genset was ideal for generating electricity in rice-mills etc. as it could produce upto 1 KWh of electricity with the cost of just Rs. 1.50.
According to Garg, the Union Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources had even approved a subsidy of Rs. 10 thousand per KWh for purchasing this genset.
At present, he said, the company would be manufacturing only 15-50 KWh gensets that shall cost between Rs. 4 lac to 12 lacs but later on, there were plans to go higher up in the range and produce gensets with capacity of 100 KWh and above to cater to the electricity needs of larger industries and even complete villages.
According to Garg, the company had already received orders for installing 16 units at various places in Bharatpur and Jamshedpur and by the end of this year, the company expected to achieve the target of installing atleast 300-400 units in the entire country, specially in the states of Maharashtra, Bihar and Jharkhand, where the rice mills were in plenty.
Apart from the domestic business, he said, the company had begun receiving a number of queries from importers in African countries who were interested in installing these units there owing to the high costs of electricity in Africa compared to India.
He said that this genset would prove to be the best and cheapest alternative to regular electricity due to the high availability of bio-mass in Africa.
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