1. Project on "BIOFUEL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY MANAGEMENT " under DST Program.
Principal Investigator Mrs. Alpana Vijaykumar
Bio fuel Project (DST )
Project :
Bio fuels for Sustainable Energy Management
The project is funded by Department of Science & Technology , New Delhi under its Women Scientist program.
Main objectives.
Develop burners which uses unprocessed Plant oil such as Jetropha, Karanj forcooking purposes.Use of oil cake and Bio waste in briquette forms by partial oxidation Processing of Plant oil for fuel use.
Work Done. A number of alternatives using unprocessed and processed plant oil have been developed. The traditional Prabhakar stoves were tried out as an alternative wick stove.
The Babington burner is a ball type burner using compressed air for pressurized burning.The filtered plant oil using activated charcoal has also been successfully used in conventional kerosene pressure stoves. The tests are continued further.
2. Vermi-Biofiltration [VBF] System
For Liquid Waste,Waste Water and Sludge Treatment.
System has been developed. The Vermi-Biofiltration, bio filters has three components.
Filtration Bed.
Vermi Stabilization.
Phytoremediation.
Application Module
Municipal Sewage and sludge
Dairy Production
Meat and Poultry Processing
Abattoirs
Paper industry.
Industrial sludge
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Fish Processing
Agricultural Run off
Food and Fruit processing industry.
Cosmetics and chemical industry sludge of biodegradable type.
Benefits
Low Capital Cost
Dairy Production
No Technical expertise needed to operate
Wide Range of applications
Low Operating and maintenance Costs
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Environmentallysafe and friendly
3. EARTHWORM BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR Organic Solid waste MANAGEMENT
Vermicomposting Applications.
Agrowaste
Industrial waste
Municipal Solid waste
4. Waste Land Development – Phytoremeditation- Soil Reclamation Technologies developed by INORA
Process :
Soil status evaluation
Technology selection
Technology application.
5. City / Urban Farming Technology Developed By Inora
Objectives :
Use of non-productive areas for greening.
Nutritional gardens.
Medicinal and aromatic plantations in cities.
Integrating Bio refuse and gray water recycling with kitchen garden development and urban forestry.
6. Waste Management Technologies.
Canteen waste Recycling.
Industrial Sludge Management.
Poly house Waste Management.
Nutritional Gardening and Terrace Development
City farming is an innovative technology, which deals with, farming in urban areas and essentially on the terraces, balconies, un-used areas, road-sides and community gardens or open spaces.
City farming is non-commercial type of farming in which the objective is Planting more of vegetables, herbs and fruit trees than ornamentals.
Creating green-pockets [lungs] in cities.
City farms are planned mainly for nutritional gardens.
City farming is for the products utilized for home consumption. Here we need variety of edible plants, hence it is called mixed farming.
Methodology of city farming is strictly of organic nature, which avoids chemicals and pesticides.
