A pilot project costing 5 million dollar to produce 486 meters cubic feet of bio-gas and 25 kilowatts of electricity per day from cow-dung has been commissioned in Landhi Cattle Colony. British company HiRAD Technology Plc, UK has installed this plant as a pilot project to utilise cow-dung and convert it into bio-gas 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 here on Friday. They said that cow-dung will not be discharged into the sea as has been done at present 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 producing 30 megawatts of electricity, 0.430 million cubic meters of bio gas and 1,500 tons of manure per day will be installed in Cattle Colony. The cost of the large plant is estimated in the range of 110 million dollar to 120 million dollar and leading multinational companies besides Asian Development Bank (ADB) have already shown their keen interest to invest in this project.