While most people are rushing to get out of India and attain that ?American Dream?, Shruti Ahuja has done the opposite by leaving her comfortable life in the United States in order to make a change in her hometown in India. Shruti founded the Ahuja engineering Services Pvt. Ltd. In 2012 that aims to convert tonnes of organic into ?biogas?. Till date she has prevented over 12,000 tonnes of organic waste from getting accumulated in a landfill and has alternatively used that waste to generate more than 4,00,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide that can be used by households across the city. She has successfully established 16 biogas plants that convert this organic waste into LPG or cooking gas.
The inspiration for this idea was birthed when she visited a poultry farm with her father and noticed the sheer amount of organic waste that was being carelessly discarded by the people. It was not being segregated and was merely being dumped with other waste into a landfill. This dumping of waste is not only harmful in terms of increasing quantity of waste generated but is also detrimental as the excreta and other nitrogen and phosphorous elements in the poultry waste can pollute the groundwater supply and consequently have a detrimental impact on human health.
Shruti then collaborated with the IICT Bioengineering & Environmental Sciences (BEES) division to create an organic waste anaerobic gas lift reactor (AGR) that converts organic waste into cooking fuel, thereby replacing LPG.
The organic waste is shredded and hydrolyzed in order to produce fermentative intermediates. A microbial culture is added to the mixture to hasten the process of digestion of the organic material. This slurry that remains is then fed into a digester. After eliminating the moisture and the hydrogen sulphide from the mixture, a biogas is produced which can then be connected to the pipeline of a kitchen to be used as cooking fuel.
This innovation has not only addressed the issue of waste management but has also equipped several people to have a regular and constant source of gas.
" />While most people are rushing to get out of India and attain that ?American Dream?, Shruti Ahuja has done the opposite by leaving her comfortable life in the United States in order to make a change in her hometown in India. Shruti founded the Ahuja engineering Services Pvt. Ltd. In 2012 that aims to convert tonnes of organic into ?biogas?. Till date she has prevented over 12,000 tonnes of organic waste from getting accumulated in a landfill and has alternatively used that waste to generate more than 4,00,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide that can be used by households across the city. She has successfully established 16 biogas plants that convert this organic waste into LPG or cooking gas.
The inspiration for this idea was birthed when she visited a poultry farm with her father and noticed the sheer amount of organic waste that was being carelessly discarded by the people. It was not being segregated and was merely being dumped with other waste into a landfill. This dumping of waste is not only harmful in terms of increasing quantity of waste generated but is also detrimental as the excreta and other nitrogen and phosphorous elements in the poultry waste can pollute the groundwater supply and consequently have a detrimental impact on human health.
Shruti then collaborated with the IICT Bioengineering & Environmental Sciences (BEES) division to create an organic waste anaerobic gas lift reactor (AGR) that converts organic waste into cooking fuel, thereby replacing LPG.
The organic waste is shredded and hydrolyzed in order to produce fermentative intermediates. A microbial culture is added to the mixture to hasten the process of digestion of the organic material. This slurry that remains is then fed into a digester. After eliminating the moisture and the hydrogen sulphide from the mixture, a biogas is produced which can then be connected to the pipeline of a kitchen to be used as cooking fuel.
This innovation has not only addressed the issue of waste management but has also equipped several people to have a regular and constant source of gas.
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