Aug 4 2010
The Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), a versatile industrial research and development institute of Bangladesh, has announced the commercial availability of its new cost effective, displaceable biogas digester plant developed in collaboration with Win Sources Ltd, a private company.
BCSIR has signed a contract with Win Sources Ltd, to vend the portable commercial fiber glass bio-gas digester manufactured by the company. This fiberglass digester costing around Tk 30,700, is made of glass fiber and resin, and has the shape of a big hollow ball and is cheaper than the home made biogas digesters built utilizing bricks and cement.
Recently, a Commercial Fiber Glass Bio-Gas Digester plant set up at a cow farm in Gonobhaban by BCSIR was inaugurated by the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. Dr Md Abdur Rouf and Md Saiful Islam who are working as principal scientific officer and scientific offer, in BCSIR have jointly developed the new fiberglass digester utilized in Bangladesh. This plant can be installed at a minimum height of 9 feet at any place within a 50 square feet vicinity. Dissimilar to the traditionally built bio gas digesters that can be installed only below the ground the new fiberglass digester can be installed even over the roof.
Farm refuse is employed to generate gas, which can be used for cooking or generating electricity. The daily production of gas is around 100 cubic feet and the derivative of the plant is fine organic fertilizer.
According to Saiful Islam, a joint inventor of the biogas digester plant, the digester can work continuously for 100 years without any dent or damage. He added there is a demand for over 4 million biogas plants all over Bangladesh and opined, that removal of the current 60% import duty for the bio gas digesters will make the plants 40 percent cheaper.