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Green initiative pays off for Kakinada hotelier
Bandi Satyanarayana, a hotelier at Chandramampalli in Peddapuram mandal of East Godavari, has set a new trend in utilisation of hotel waste in an innovative form. Satyanarayana, who has been utilising hotel waste to generate bio-gas, saved a lot of money on cooking gas since 1998. Now he has taken the initiative as a campaign to motivate fellow hoteliers to go in for bio-gas generation from hotel
Kakinada: Bandi Satyanarayana, a hotelier at Chandramampalli in Peddapuram mandal of East Godavari, has set a new trend in utilisation of hotel waste in an innovative form. Satyanarayana, who has been utilising hotel waste to generate bio-gas, saved a lot of money on cooking gas since 1998. Now he has taken the initiative as a campaign to motivate fellow hoteliers to go in for bio-gas generation from hotel waste.
This would be a humble contribution to the Swachh Bharat programme, said Satyanrayana, owner of Datta Sai Restaurant. Explaining the process to The Hans India, Satyanaryana said that they dump all the hotel waste in the inlet of a plant constructed by bricks. On fermentation, bio-gas is generated which is let into the kitchen pipelines to light up the stoves while the slurry is let out as manure.
The stove for this is separately designed as the LPG stove is not suitable for use of bio-gas. He hit upon the idea of having a bio-gas plant when he found that there was no dumping yard and was finding it difficult to dispose of the hotel waste. At times the hotel staff had to go kilometres together to find a suitable place to dump the waste. For some time, he used to dump the waste in a small land owned by him by digging a pit. But that resulted in stray dogs menace.
He then heard of bio-gas generation from cattle dung .He contacted the Non-conventional Energy Development Corporation (Nedcap) which is now known as NREDCAP at East Godavari collectorate and the plant was constructed to suit his requirements. Necessary equipment like stove, gas tube were supplied by the Nedcap.
“Initially people used to stare at us as they could not believe that the material which is considered as waste can be recycled for a better purpose,” said Satyanarayana. “At an average our gas consumption per day is around 8 and-a-half kilos and half this requirement is meet from biogas generation,” he said.
The LPG of 19 kilo for commercial purpose costs Rs 1,051 at present. “By having bio-gas we are saving over Rs 150 per day,” said Satyanarayana. East Godavari district NREDCAP Manager G. Satyanarayayana said that they are planning for second plant for the hotelier or construct new one in the existing place to improve generation of the biogas.
