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VERs generated from
wastewater methane recovery
& power generation project by
Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Ltd
Project Location
Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Ltd
3407 GIDC Industrial Estate
P.O. Ankleshwar,
District Bharuch
Gujarat - 393 002
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Project Eco Friendly Benefits
Methanes global warming potential is about 21 times greater than that of CO2. Methane is produced and
emitted by landfills, during wastewater treatment, in natural gas and petroleum systems, from agricultural
activities (livestock and rice cultivation), and during coal mining. Methane is basically natural gas and
can therefore be captured and used as a source of energy. It is usually quite easy to establish
additionality for methane projects because there is generally no other source of revenue from the
activity aside from the sale of offsets. The project activity displaces energy from a more carbon-intensive grid and leads to the avoidance of methane emissions given that the methane would have beentreated as a waste gas and emitted directly into the atmosphere.
The company, Kanoria Chemicals &Industries Limited (KCI), is an ISO
9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001
certified, and is leading manufacturer
of chemical intermediates in India.
KCI operates a manufacturing facilityat Ankleshwar, District Bharuch,
Gujarat, India.
The plant has a biogas power plant
through which the project proponents
capture methane emitted from the
anaerobic organic wastewatertreatment plant within the project
boundary to generate 3MW of powerand steam for in-house processes.
The project activity thus displaces
energy from a more carbon-intensive
grid and leads to the avoidance of
methane emissions given that the
methane would have been treated as awaste gas and emitted directly into the
atmosphere.
In the absence of the methane to
power project activity, the equivalent
amount of electricity will be generated
through conventional fuel sourcesleading to GHG emissions.
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KCI has used path-breaking technology for the first time in India for treatment
of distillery effluent by successfully implementing reverse osmosis technology
for converting around 70 percent of distillery effluent into usable clean water,
which is re-used in the distillery plant. This has resulted in the company needingonly 6 litres of fresh water for production of 1 litre of alcohol as compared to
13-14 litres by other distilleries. On the whole, the company has cut down freshwater usage to 1300 KL/day from a high of 1800 KL/day.
KCI is proactive in not only adopting the
best available technologies forenvironmental management but has in
fact pioneered new initiatives in water
treatment and effluent disposal. In
recognition of the company's initiativesthe Indian Chemical Manufacturers'
Association awarded the company with
both the ICMA Award for WaterResource Management in Chemical
Industry and the ICMA--DM Trivedi
Award for introducing Advancement in
Technology having a widespread impact
on chemical industry.
KCI was also conferred the TERI TERI
The Education Resources Institute
(education financing) TERI Tata Energy
Research Institute (India) TERI The
Energy and Resources Institute
(India) (The Energy & Resources
Institute) Corporate Excellence Awardfor Environment Management in May2005. The award was given on the case
study of the 'Waste to Energy'
programme run at the company'schemical works located at Ankleshwar.
The award also recognised the
company's pioneering usage of the
Reverse Osmosis technology for treating
distillery effluent.
The company is actively pursuing a
Mercury Management Programme,
which has resulted in substantiallyreducing mercury consumption and
emission in the atmosphere. KCI also
successfully conforms to the Charter on
Corporate Responsibility forEnvironment Protection (CREP CREP
Conservation Reserve EnhancementProgram CREP Contract Repair
Enhancement Program CREP Court
Referral Education Programs ) as
designed by the Alkali Manufacturers'
Association of India (AMAI AMAI
American Medical Informatics
Association ).
KCI also recycles water by the uniqueReverse Osmosis process that KCI has
developed. Further, the treated effluent
is used to produce bio compost, which is
sold as excellent organic manure.
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Social Benefits:
The policies of KCI have consistently emphasised socially useful investment. These have evolved on the dictates of
the heart rather than the mind. The company has reaped rich dividends from protecting the environment and
promoting community development programmes. It has developed excellent relationship with the people in and
around its manufacturing locations and is perceived as a catalyst for improving their income generating abilities and
overall living conditions.
Fly-ash based eco-friendly
housing built for the community
One of the more recent KCI
initiatives, the project seeks toprovide clean, comfortable,
hygienic and aesthetically designed
houses to contract labours and theirfamilies, using environment friendly
flyash based materials. While the
practice of a company in India
providing housing facilities is not
uncommon, KCI is perhaps the first
company to develop a housing
complex exclusively for its contract
labourers.
As a result of the project the
temporary hutments constructed by
the contract labour within andoutside the township would get
cleared, thus eliminating unhealthy
living conditions and enhancing
overall cleanliness. The first phase
of the project is complete and 128
housing units have been
constructed. The project is uniqueconsidering that it utilises flyashgenerated by the captive thermal
power plants of the company. Not
only does this ensure low costs by
utilising a waste product but flyash
bricks are also excellent building
material with good thermal and
structural properties.
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Temple built for the localcommunity
Hospital built for the localcommunity
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KCI has substantially contributed
towards agriculture and forestry by
providing seeds for lac and castor
and saplings for fruit trees;
providing training for household
income generation in the areas of
traditional crafts such as carpetweaving, sericulture, tailoring andbamboo artefacts.
KCI has moved away from the
earlier practice of hands-oninvolvement in creating income
generating activities for the landless
and women. The company now
provides for the 'training of trainers'
to pave way for upgrading the skills
of bamboo craftsmen and helpingthem train other people in their
community.
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By way of a survey conducted scientifically by KCI, the felt needs of the people were identified and it was
established that the single biggest problem facing the people was non-availability of water for irrigation at
its other plant site in Uttar Pradesh. Under this programme, 39 check dams have been constructed in
collaboration with the villagers around Renukoot who contributed 25% of the total project cost. Theresulting sense of ownership and the management skills of KCI have been critical factors for the success of
the project. The number of check dams is expected to go up to 80 by the year 2013. Over 1,300 acres of
land has been irrigated under this project. The highlight of the benefit accruing to villagers from this projectis that it allows them to grow up to three crops in a year compared to the only one that they were sometimes
growing earlier. In difficult soil conditions, watershed management has also helped the villages to increase
crop yields. This has significantly expanded income generation for the villagers.