Bhubaneswar: As part of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) General Manager, Vidya Bhushan, Monday laid the foundation stone for a waste-to-energy plant at the carriage repair workshop in Mancheswar area here. The plant to be set up at an investment of Rs 2 crore is expected to come up by January 2020.
As per report, a lot of non-ferrous scrap is generated in the carriage repair workshop which has no efficient method of disposal. As a result, they find their way to landfills which is environmentally hazardous. The workshop has found a way for tackling this problem in a patented technology called ‘Polycrack’. It is world’s first patented heterogeneous catalytic process which converts multiple feed stocks into hydrocarbon liquid fuels, gas, carbon and water. This is the first-of its-kind in Indian Railways and third such facility in India.
Polycrack plant can be fed with the all types of plastic, petroleum sludge, unsegregated municipal solid waste (MSW) with moisture up to 50 per cent, e–waste, automobile fluff, organic waste including bamboos, garden waste and others.
This waste-to-energy plant will be constructed in four months and the target date of commissioning of this plant is January 2020. About Rs 2 crore will be spent for commissioning of this plant.