This looks like a good project to me.
But I can not find which government department/agency is involved in it?! Who started this project?
HiRAD LTD - Biogas for Energy
HiRAD has built a pilot plant in Landhi Cattle Colony near Karachi Pakistan to verify production and performance data. The final pieces of equipment will be installed in August 2008 enabling start up shortly after. Landhi is home to over 400,000 Buffalo, the largest herd in the World in an area of just 3Km2. Currently over 7,200 tons per day of dung is produced, much of which of which ends up on the land or in the sea, causing terrible pollution and seriously damaging the marine eco-system, not to mention methane escaping that is 21 times more damaging to the atmosphere.
Following on from the pilot, the full size plant, possibly the largest manure biogas plant in the World, will use this dung and other organic wastes, to produce many million of cubic metres of biogas and over 200,000 tons of organic fertiliser each year, providing employment for over 500 local workers. This will support electricity-generating capacity of many megawatts.
This project is the culmination of almost 10 years work by New Zealand Consultancy Empower, and NEC of Karachi, and it is our privilege to participate in this life changing enterprise, that will prevent over 1 million tons of CO2e reaching the atmosphere each year, making this one of the largest CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) projects.
Biogas plant commissioned in Landhi Cattle Colony
Biogas plant commissioned in Landhi Cattle Colony
Saturday, August 09, 2008
Karachi
A pilot project costing $5 million to produce 486 meters cubic feet of bio-gas and 25 kilowatts of electricity per day from cow dung has been commissioned in the Landhi Cattle Colony.
A British company, M/S HiRAD Technology, Plc, UK, has installed this plant as a pilot project to utilise cow dung and convert it into biogas and electricity, besides producing 2.25 tons of enriched natural manure (organic fertiliser) per day.
The formal inauguration ceremony of the pilot project will be held after the successful results of the commissioning, sources said on Friday.
They said that cow dung will not be discharged into the sea and instead this waste would be used to produce bio-gas, electricity and manure. He said that after the successful experiment, a large plant with a capacity of 30 megawatts of electricity, 0.430 million cubic metres of bio-gas and 1,500 tons of manure per day will be installed in the cattle colony.
The cost of the large plant is estimated to be in the range of $110 to $120 million and leading multinational companies besides the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have already shown their keen interest to invest in this project.
Sources said that Karachi has a cattle population of 1 million. Of this, more than 400,000 or 40 percent cattle heads are housed in Landhi Cattle Colony.
It is the only colony in world having largest concentration of animals at one place. An estimated 8000 tons of animal manure is produced from this colony everyday which is drained into the sea through a locally made drainage system.