Applying biogas technology to an urban environment needs help in a commercial scale. Amid, the increasing demand for alternative energy sources transforming food waste into clean household cooking fuel is a welcome concept.
India’s Pune-based Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) won its second 30,000 pound Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy (Food) for its revolutionary application of biogas technology for transforming food waste into clean household cooking fuel, in an urban environment.
ARTI has designed an innovative compact biogas system. It is suitable for urban households and so — in spite of using dung — it uses food waste and other sugary, starchy substances to produce gas for cooking.
In 2002, ARTI had won the Ashden Award (Food) for their char briquettes that uses agricultural waste.
Via: Express India
