Indian Railway’s First Waste-To-Energy Plant Commissioned In Bhubaneswar

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The first waste-to-energy plant of the Indian Railways, has been commissioned at Carriage Repair Workshop, Mancheswar, in Bhubaneswar by the East Coast Railway (ECoR) zone.
The plant is the first Government of India initiative in waste to energy plant and fourth such plant in the country.
It has been built at a cost of Rs 1.79 crore and has the capacity to dispose 500 kg waste, including plastic and e-waste.
This waste-to-energy plant uses a patented technology called 'Polycrack', which is world’s first patented heterogeneous catalytic process to convert multiple feed stocks into hydrocarbon liquid fuels, gas, carbon and water.
This process will produce energy in the form of light diesel oil which is used to light furnaces.