RAJSHAHI, Apr 22: Ifat Bio-CNG Plant Limited, a private enterprise situated in Bosua area of the city, has been producing successfully CNG and bio-fertiliser by using renewable waste products at its own plant for about last one year. This is the first initiative to prepare CNG and bio-fertiliser in the country which uses renewable waste products from sugar mills and from throwaway garbage at a very low cost, claimed Toufiqul Islam, managing director and owner of the company.
Toufiqul Islam who studied on renewable bio-CNG in England returned to Bangladesh four-year ago and started to establish the bio-CNG Gas Factory at Basua, at the outskirts of the city. He said, though he has been successfully producing CNG gas and bio-fertiliser successfully from throwaway waste products by installing his own plant, the officials of the Department of Explosives and the Department Agriculture has expressed their inability to issue him permission letters to produce the gas and the bio-fertiliser in a commercial basis.
Toufiqul Islam further mentioned, after completion of his study on renewable energy from England, he returned to this country and without searching for any job, he started his own plant. When this small scale plant would run fully, 30-50 people will be employed there, the bio-fertiliser produced in the plant would save the soil, plant and environment from harmful effect of chemical fertiliser and the methane gas produced in the plant would be used commercially.
In this connection he mentioned, he has already been producing clean methane gas in his factory through using an effective technology by separating Carbon-di-oxide and Hydrogen Sulfide from biogas. The methane gas is again being compressed to produce CNG. This CNG is being safely bottled, and as test case, being used as fuel for cooking purposes. At the same time, the same CNG would also be used to run vehicles, mentioned Toufiqul.
Toufiqul Islam said authorities of Ifat Bio-CNG Plant Limited recently met with chief explosive officer of the Department of Explosives, Rajshahi, and explained the importance of renewable bio-CNG worldwide and its role in combating environmental degradation but the chief explosive officer expressed his inability to recognise this renewable fuel and without the permission of the department of explosives, he is not being able to market the fuel in safe bottle to be used for cooking purposes. As a result, he is facing financial constraints in running his factory. He further said, he has also applied to the department of Agriculture for procuring a license to market the bio-fertiliser being produced in his plant some eight months ago but the concerned department has not yet issued him the license.
Toufiqul Islam said people of this country have the idea that biogas can only be produced from cow-dung but the experiment shows the biogas produced from cow dung is very small in amount- only 16 to 22 cubic meter from a tonne of cow dung but Ifat Bio CNG Limited is successfully producing 150 cubic meter of bio-gas by using one tonne of sugar-press mud (waste molasses from sugar mills) and other renewable waste products. He further said, the biogas plant he developed and used is completely different from all conventional bio-gas plants now in use in the country and his plant is set up completely on the ground and automation technology is being used to mix raw materials and water, auto-heating system is being used to kill all harmful bacterium and sophisticated PSA system is being used to purify the produced biogas and through using standard compressor machine the gas is being bottled for marketing.
He claimed his factory was producing fully environment friendly biogas, compressed CNG and the bio-fertiliser from renewable waste products. The technology used for producing biogas and fertiliser in the factory is sustainable and the plant has a capacity of producing 300 cubic meter of gas and one and a half tonne of bio-fertiliser daily. He sought cooperation from the government to establish a large scale renewable bio-gas and the bio-fertiliser plant so that it can fulfil demand of fuel in households and industries and also remove unemployment of problem from the region.
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