{"id":543680,"date":"2022-12-16T12:19:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T06:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=543680"},"modified":"2022-12-16T12:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T06:49:19","slug":"greater-chennai-corporation-plans-to-raise-production-of-bio-cng-from-wet-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/greater-chennai-corporation-plans-to-raise-production-of-bio-cng-from-wet-garbage\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Chennai Corporation plans to raise production of bio-CNG from wet garbage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: In a bid to reduce waste going into landfills, the Greater Chennai Corporation is planning to scale up its bio-CNG plants to produce cooking gas from wet waste.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the city has 200 metric tonne capacity plants of bio-CNG in Madhavaram and Chetpet. &#8220;We are planning to add another 500 MT in the coming months. The plants would come in Sholinganallur and Manali,&#8221; said N Mahesan, chief engineer for solid waste management department.<\/p>\n<p>Presently, for every 100 metric tonne (1 lakh kg ) of wet waste the corporation processes, it generates 4,000 kg of methane gas that helps in cooking as well as renewable automotive fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: In a bid to reduce waste going into landfills, the Greater Chennai Corporation is planning to scale up its bio-CNG plants to produce cooking gas from wet waste. Currently, the city has 200 metric tonne capacity plants of bio-CNG in Madhavaram and Chetpet. &#8220;We are planning to add another 500 MT in the coming months. The plants would come in Sholinganallur and Manali,&#8221; said N Mahesan, chief engineer for solid waste management department. Presently, for every 100 metric tonne (1 lakh kg ) of wet waste the corporation processes, it generates 4,000 kg of methane gas that helps in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}