Work on India's 1st waste-to-hydrogen plant begins in Pune

Pune, April 06: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has started the work of installing India's first plant to extract green Hydrogen from solid waste at the Hadapsar Industrial area. The refuse-derived fuel (RDF) from the waste will be used to generate hydrogen using plasma gasification technology.

 

 

While talking to Hindustan Times, Asha Raut, the head of PMC’s solid waste department, stated, “The installation of the plant has already begun, and the civic body has granted land for the project to the contractor. It will be the country’s first such plant. The Plant has a capacity of 350 metric tonnes. PMC would pay the contractor a tipping fee of ₹348 per tonne.”

 

“The contractor would supply the green hydrogen for industrial purposes,” PMC officials said.

According to PMC officials, “the green hydrogen would be generated from waste.” The Government of India recently launched the National Mission for Hydrogen, which promotes the production of green fuel from waste. The waste’s Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) will be used to generate hydrogen via plasma gasification technology. The Bhabha Automatic Research Institute (BARC) is assisting with the project’s technology.

 

PMC anticipates that the project will be completed within a year, and that hydrogen production will begin from the plant the following year.

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