Transformation of Municipal Solid Waste into Fuel Pellets Case Study of Newai, Rajasthan

Abstract

Ashna Mehra, Jay Pandya, Jigyasa Singh, Prachi Golhar, Sheetal Kamble, Akshey Bhargava

The municipal solid waste is generating on a rapid pace not only in India but on a global scale with the increase in population and life style of people on a time scale. Such a huge quantity of waste is posing a serious threat to human health and also on environment as a whole. Many cities in India do not have any treatment and scientific disposal of such wastes thereby developing big hills of municipal solid wastes causing ground water contamination through the process of leaching, generation of mosquitoes leading to various diseases, nuisance and odor problems etc. With an alarming problems being witnessed, the authors of present paper have attempted a case study of small tehsil Newai, district, Tonk in Rajasthan, India wherein the population is forecasted to 2051 and waste generation is estimated on a time scale. A lab study has been conducted by one of the authorto transform municipal waste in to fuel pallets with calorific value of 6000 kcal / kg as an alternate fuel. Such a solution not only facilitate in improving the quality of environment and restriction of pollution but also provide environmentally sustainable approach by providing economic benefits to make the system sustainable.

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