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India’s Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry advocates for a higher proportion of co-incinerated waste as refuse-derived fuel in cement kilns, The Hindu reports. In a cooperation with the Cement Manufacturers Association (CMA), the ministry…
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According to Global Cemfuels, the city corporation of Tirupur has signed a supply agreement with ACC’s cement plant at Madukarai near Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. The agreement requires 30 tonnes of RDF to be supplied…
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According to The Economic Times, the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) plans to begin co-firing biomass such as scrap lumber, forest debris, crop residues, manure, at all of its coal-based thermal power plants. NTPC will…
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A law introduced in 2016 which mandated that cement factories within 100 km of an RDF plant, have to use at least 5% combustible waste as their fuel, has recently been amended by the Ministry…
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According to Global CemFuel, UltraTech Cement’s Reddipalayam cement plant at Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu, has started receiving MSW waste from the Vellore Municipal Corporation. The Reddipalayam cement plant normally treats RDF from a 150km radius but…
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According to Global CemFuel, UltraTech’s cement plant in Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu, will double its RDF intake from Tiruchirappalli (also known as Trichy). Changing an agreement from February 2018 to supply 30 tpy of RDF to…
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Indian public utility NTPC has received three bids for its tender for supplying 1,000 tpd of fuel based on agricultural residues, as the Economic Times reported. The three companies offered to supply 250 tpd each,…
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According to the Economic Times, Indian public utility NTPC has released a tender for the procurement of 1,000 metric tons per day of agricultural residues-based fuel for its 2,650 MW Dadri Power Plant. The facility…
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An already signed agreement between the Tiruchirappalli Municipal Corporation and Indian company IL&FS will see the supply of RDF from fresh dry waste for use as fuel input for the Ariyalur cement factory of Ultratech…
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After having been defunct for several months due to huge piles of RDF and compost, 4 out of 6 waste treatment plants in the Bengaluru area, state of Karnataka, are up and running again, as…
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As a reaction of landfill sites filled beyond their capacity, the Central Pollution Control Coard (CPCB) has presented new draft rules aiming to use solid and industrial waste as fuel in the cement industry. According…
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Public body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has entered a short-term contract with several unnamed cement factories in the state of Karnataka. As said, the cement producers will treat the RDF that has accumulated at…
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According to Global Cem Fuels, India wants to increase the use of scrap plastic in cement kilns. The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has proposed a roadmap for implementing the new rules. It also wants…
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The Electronics City Industrial Township Authority (Elcita) is planning to set up a 50 tpd MBT facility in Electronics City, an industrial hub near Bengaluru. According to the Economic Times, the project costs are estimated…
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According to the source, the Foundation and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) said in a white paper that if the use of waste as fuel in cement kilns reached five per cent, India’s CO2…
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Chinese technology is to be deployed at a 13 MWel RDF facility being developed in the Narela Bawana area of Delhi. The facility is due to be operational by November. 4,000 tons of RDF per…
