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VERs generated from

wastewater methane recovery

& power generation project by

Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Ltd

Project Location

Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Ltd

3407 GIDC Industrial Estate

P.O. Ankleshwar,

District Bharuch

Gujarat - 393 002


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Project Eco Friendly Benefits

Methanes global warming potential is about 21 times greater than that of CO2. Methane is produced and

emitted by landfills, during wastewater treatment, in natural gas and petroleum systems, from agricultural

activities (livestock and rice cultivation), and during coal mining. Methane is basically natural gas and

can therefore be captured and used as a source of energy. It is usually quite easy to establish

additionality for methane projects because there is generally no other source of revenue from the

activity aside from the sale of offsets. The project activity displaces energy from a more carbon-intensive grid and leads to the avoidance of methane emissions given that the methane would have beentreated as a waste gas and emitted directly into the atmosphere.

The company, Kanoria Chemicals &Industries Limited (KCI), is an ISO

9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001

certified, and is leading manufacturer

of chemical intermediates in India.

KCI operates a manufacturing facilityat Ankleshwar, District Bharuch,

Gujarat, India.

The plant has a biogas power plant

through which the project proponents

capture methane emitted from the

anaerobic organic wastewatertreatment plant within the project

boundary to generate 3MW of powerand steam for in-house processes.

The project activity thus displaces

energy from a more carbon-intensive

grid and leads to the avoidance of

methane emissions given that the

methane would have been treated as awaste gas and emitted directly into the

atmosphere.

In the absence of the methane to

power project activity, the equivalent

amount of electricity will be generated

through conventional fuel sourcesleading to GHG emissions.


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KCI has used path-breaking technology for the first time in India for treatment

of distillery effluent by successfully implementing reverse osmosis technology

for converting around 70 percent of distillery effluent into usable clean water,

which is re-used in the distillery plant. This has resulted in the company needingonly 6 litres of fresh water for production of 1 litre of alcohol as compared to

13-14 litres by other distilleries. On the whole, the company has cut down freshwater usage to 1300 KL/day from a high of 1800 KL/day.

KCI is proactive in not only adopting the

best available technologies forenvironmental management but has in

fact pioneered new initiatives in water

treatment and effluent disposal. In

recognition of the company's initiativesthe Indian Chemical Manufacturers'

Association awarded the company with

both the ICMA Award for WaterResource Management in Chemical

Industry and the ICMA--DM Trivedi

Award for introducing Advancement in

Technology having a widespread impact

on chemical industry.

KCI was also conferred the TERI TERI

The Education Resources Institute

(education financing) TERI Tata Energy

Research Institute (India) TERI The

Energy and Resources Institute

(India) (The Energy & Resources

Institute) Corporate Excellence Awardfor Environment Management in May2005. The award was given on the case

study of the 'Waste to Energy'

programme run at the company'schemical works located at Ankleshwar.

The award also recognised the

company's pioneering usage of the

Reverse Osmosis technology for treating

distillery effluent.

The company is actively pursuing a

Mercury Management Programme,

which has resulted in substantiallyreducing mercury consumption and

emission in the atmosphere. KCI also

successfully conforms to the Charter on

Corporate Responsibility forEnvironment Protection (CREP CREP

Conservation Reserve EnhancementProgram CREP Contract Repair

Enhancement Program CREP Court

Referral Education Programs ) as

designed by the Alkali Manufacturers'

Association of India (AMAI AMAI

American Medical Informatics

Association ).

KCI also recycles water by the uniqueReverse Osmosis process that KCI has

developed. Further, the treated effluent

is used to produce bio compost, which is

sold as excellent organic manure.


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Social Benefits:

The policies of KCI have consistently emphasised socially useful investment. These have evolved on the dictates of

the heart rather than the mind. The company has reaped rich dividends from protecting the environment and

promoting community development programmes. It has developed excellent relationship with the people in and

around its manufacturing locations and is perceived as a catalyst for improving their income generating abilities and

overall living conditions.

Fly-ash based eco-friendly

housing built for the community

One of the more recent KCI

initiatives, the project seeks toprovide clean, comfortable,

hygienic and aesthetically designed

houses to contract labours and theirfamilies, using environment friendly

flyash based materials. While the

practice of a company in India

providing housing facilities is not

uncommon, KCI is perhaps the first

company to develop a housing

complex exclusively for its contract

labourers.

As a result of the project the

temporary hutments constructed by

the contract labour within andoutside the township would get

cleared, thus eliminating unhealthy

living conditions and enhancing

overall cleanliness. The first phase

of the project is complete and 128

housing units have been

constructed. The project is uniqueconsidering that it utilises flyashgenerated by the captive thermal

power plants of the company. Not

only does this ensure low costs by

utilising a waste product but flyash

bricks are also excellent building

material with good thermal and

structural properties.


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Temple built for the localcommunity

Hospital built for the localcommunity


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KCI has substantially contributed

towards agriculture and forestry by

providing seeds for lac and castor

and saplings for fruit trees;

providing training for household

income generation in the areas of

traditional crafts such as carpetweaving, sericulture, tailoring andbamboo artefacts.

KCI has moved away from the

earlier practice of hands-oninvolvement in creating income

generating activities for the landless

and women. The company now

provides for the 'training of trainers'

to pave way for upgrading the skills

of bamboo craftsmen and helpingthem train other people in their

community.


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By way of a survey conducted scientifically by KCI, the felt needs of the people were identified and it was

established that the single biggest problem facing the people was non-availability of water for irrigation at

its other plant site in Uttar Pradesh. Under this programme, 39 check dams have been constructed in

collaboration with the villagers around Renukoot who contributed 25% of the total project cost. Theresulting sense of ownership and the management skills of KCI have been critical factors for the success of

the project. The number of check dams is expected to go up to 80 by the year 2013. Over 1,300 acres of

land has been irrigated under this project. The highlight of the benefit accruing to villagers from this projectis that it allows them to grow up to three crops in a year compared to the only one that they were sometimes

growing earlier. In difficult soil conditions, watershed management has also helped the villages to increase

crop yields. This has significantly expanded income generation for the villagers.

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