Vellore C. Srinivasan is project director and consultant for solid and liquid resource management in the Indian Green Service (http://indiangreenservice.com),
an environmental protection and service organisation. He was the chief
guest at the Karma Yoga Second Annual Convention, in Great Lakes
Institute of Management, where people from the nearby 21 villages had
assembled.
| Waste-to-energy plants based on gasification are high-efficiency power plants that utilize municipal solid waste as their fuel rather than conventional sources of energy like coal, oil or natural gas. |
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By Salman Zafar, Renewable Energy Advisor
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Introduction
The enormous increase in the quantum and diversity of waste materials and their potentially harmful effects on the general environment and public health, have led to an increasing awareness about an urgent need to adopt scientific methods for safe disposal of wastes. While there is an obvious need to minimize the generation of wastes and to reuse and recycle them, the technologies for recovery of energy from wastes can play a vital role in mitigating the problems. |
