Mumbai, 27 October 2021: Ramky Enviro, Asia’s leading integrated waste management today inaugurated one of the World’s first and India’s largest Landfill Gas to Compressed Biogas Plant at Hyderabad Integrated Municipal Solid Waste (HiMSW) site.
The project is focus on Conversion of Landfill Gas into Compressed Biogas as an automotive fuel.
The project offers significant benefits such as carbon sequestration and reduced emissions of GHGs into the environment and contributes to the greening of the automotive industry.
Speaking on the inauguration, Masood Mallick, JMD, Ramky Enviro Said :
“At Ramky Enviro, sustainability forms the bedrock of our business and founding principles. This project responds to one of the biggest strategic imperatives of today – how can we make India’s infrastructure development more sustainable, whilst supporting our strategic energy security priorities. For us, the answer lies in mainstream green innovations that help scale and deliver circular economy and resource recovery solutions. We are delighted that this first of its kind, large scale Landfill Gas to CBG project has been recognised as the Most Innovative Environmental Project and we are confident that this project will be the first of many path-breaking projects that will accelerate not only India’s sustainable waste management journey but also greening of the Indian automotive sector. The successful transformation of one of the largest municipal waste dumpsites in India to a significant source of sustainable energy and green auto fuel, is a great example of circular economy innovation at scale, one that is unprecedented globally.”
Highlights of the Plant :
- HiMSW undertook to purify and convert the captured gas from a capped landfill into compressed biogas for use as a clean fuel in automobiles under the Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) scheme launched by the Government of India in 2018.
- Contributing to the accomplishment of Ramky Enviro’s sustainability goals, a processing plant that converts 600 Nm3 of landfill gas per hour to CBG, duly meeting IS 16087:2010 requirements, has been commission.
- The project offers significant benefits such as carbon sequestration and reduced emissions of GHGs into the environment and contributes to the greening of the automotive industry.
- The compress biogas will be sold to Bhagyanagar Gas Limited through its retail outlets in Hyderabad.
About Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited :
Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd (REEL), a KKR-backed company, is one of Asia’s leading providers of comprehensive environment management services.
REEL offers a whole gamut of environmental services and infrastructure solutions under various categories such as Waste Management (including hazardous, municipal, biomedical, MARPOL/ marine waste, construction waste & e-waste); Waste to Energy; Recycling (plastics, e-waste, ELVs, wastewater, paper, and other commodities); Environmental Solutions such as remediation, ETPs and wastewater treatment; automated car park management and Facilities Management.
REEL has a growing global footprint, including over 65 operating locations spread across India, Singapore, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, USA and Tanzania.
With over 25 years of operational history, REEL has a dominant presence across the entire waste value chain and has been a long-standing partner in the environmental solutions space to its customers.
