Title: Status of biogas plants in Akola district, India.
Abstract: The present research work entitled “Status of Biogas plants in Akola District” was carried out for the identification of the present scenario of biogas system. In the survey, data of biogas installation was collected from the national project on Biogas Development since 1982-83 to December 2006. It was found that nearly 13136 numbers of biogas plants were installed in the district. In the study, two villages from each block of Akola district were selected for collection of information about the biogas system. Nearly 140 number of biogas plants were installed in the fourteen selected villages of the seven block of district. Out of these, only 30 biogas plants (21 %) were found in working condition. The study reveals that a biogas user in the district faces the problem of dung and water availability for working of biogas system. It was realized that users of the studied area have not proper awareness about the problems occurred during operation of system which affected the working of biogas plant. It was observed that majority of the people have installed the floating dome type (KVIC) biogas plants. See end of the article for authors’ affiliations
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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