GMR Industries pioneering effort towards Climate Change Mitigation
 
GMR Industries Limited has set up a ‘Methane Recovery and Power Generation Plant’ at the E.T.P (Effluent Treatment Plant) of its Distillery unit of the Sugar Complex. The project activity is one of its kind in the world.

In the normal process, due to the decomposition of high Biological/Chemical Oxygen Demand Spent-Wash, which is the distillery’s effluent, Methane, a potent Green House Gas (GHG) is emitted into the atmosphere. Methane gas is 21 times harmful than Carbon Dioxide in causing Global Warming.

The Methane Recovery and Power Generation plant, combusts methane in a boiler to generate process-steam that in turn runs a turbo-generator, generating electricity. Rice-husk, which is a GHG neutral biomass residue fuel, is also used as supplement fuel in the boiler. This plant of 0.96 MW capacity reduces the use of electricity generated from fossil fuels. The sugar complex also emits far less Green House Gases into the environment.

The project has been registered as a Clean Development Mechanism (C.D.M.) project, with United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), under Kyoto Protocol. The project expects to receive 44,729 Certified Emission Reductions/Carbon Credits (C.E.R), per annum, till September 2013.