IV. CONCLUSION
India’s energy problems have made the need to turn
towards waste-to-energy technologies extremely important,
especially because landfills in India’s urban centres are fast
nearing the limits of their capacity.
The characterization of kitchen waste collected from four
canteens in the Bhavan’s campus, the average moisture
content of the samples was found to be around 75%. High
moisture content makes thermal recovery from solid waste
uneconomical as considerable fuel is used up by the latent
moisture in the solid waste. Anaerobic digestion, which
requires high moisture content for the sustenance of the
methane bacteria, was the preferred alternative for energy
recovery from organic waste in the Bhavan’s campus. A
higher volatile matter content leads to a better biogas yield.
The test samples contained an average of 85% of volatile
matter, thus strengthening the case for the adoption of
anaerobic digestion in the Bhavan’s campus.