Praj Industries Ltd. (Pune, India; www.praj.net) announced the groundbreaking of the compressed bio-gas (CBG) integrated demo plant of at Shreenath Mhaskoba Surgar Factory, adjacent to the existing 2nd Gen Bio-Refinery demo facility that has been operational for 3 years.
Praj unveiled its roadmap for commercialization of CBG technology and reaffirmed its readiness by way of required infrastructure to execute multiple CBG plants with advanced technology and designs. In October of 2018, the government of India released the “Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation” (SATAT) policy, which envisages implementation of 5,000 Compressed Bio-Gas plants in the next 5 years. CBG is a complementary renewable transportation fuel to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). Praj’s CBG technology is a major step in that direction.
Praj’s demo plant is a first-of-its-kind integrated CBG plant in the country. This flexible and highly instrumented plant will test, improve and optimize production of CBG from different feedstock such as biomass, press mud, variety of agricultural waste, paper mill pith and more.