Waste to Energy Plant by East Coast Railway at Bhubaneswar

摘要

In an initiative of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, East Coast Railway is going to establish a Waste to Energy Plant at Carriage Repair Workshop at Bhubaneswar. General Manager, East Coast Railway Shri Vidya Bhushan laid the foundation stone of the Plant in presence of Additional General Manager Shri Sudhir Kumar and Principal Heads of the Departments of East Coast Railway on 30 September, 2019. Lots of non-ferrous scrap is being generated in the Carriage Repair Workshop at Mancheswar, Bhubaneswar which has no efficient method of disposal. As a result, they find their way to landfills, which is environmentally hazardous.Carriage Repair Workshop, Mancheswar has found a way for tackling this problem in a patented technology called Polycrack. It is world's first patented heterogenous catalytic process which converts multiple feed stocks into hydrocarbon liquid fuels, gas, carbon and water. This is the 1st-of-its-kind in Indian Railways and 3rd in India. Polycrack Plant can be fed with the all types of Plastic, Petroleum sludge, Un segregated MSW with moisture up to 50%, E-Waste, Automobile fluff, Organic waste including bamboo's, garden waste etc. and Jathropa fruit and palm bunch.