Status of Biogas Technology in Akola District of Maharashtra State

摘要

The research work was a survey conducted for the identification of the present scenario of biogas systems. In the survey, biogas installation data were collected from the national project on Biogas Development in 1982-83 to December 2006. Nearly 13,136 biogas plants were installed in the district. Two villages from each block of Akola district were selected for collection of information about the biogas system. Nearly 140 biogas plants were installed in the fourteen selected villages of the seven blocks of the district. Out of these, only 30 biogas plants (21 %) were found in working condition and 79 % were in non-working condition. A biogas user in the district faced the problem of dung and water availability for satisfactorily working a system. Users did not have proper awareness of the problems expected during system operation that affected the working of the biogas plant. The majority of operators installed the floating dome type (KVIC) biogas plant.