Clean Development Mechanism Projects

Project title

Methane Recovery from waste water treatment in Seafood Industry in Maharastra, India

Country

India

Project description

The project is to set up an Effluent Treatment Plant in the seafood industry for generation of biogas and fulfil the objective of recycling the water. The project generates around 2000 m3 of effluent per day having
approximately a COD content of 13,000 and 10,400 m3 of biogas per day having methane content of 55-75%. The biogas will replace about 4.68kL of furnace oil per day.

The applied methodology is AMS I.C. - Thermal Energy for the user and AMS III.H. - Methane recovery in wastewater treatment.

The project is a small scale CDM project.

The crediting period is renewable 3x7 years starting from 01/10/2006.

The estimated annual emission reduction is 17,158 t-CO2.

Project documents

Project Design Document (PDD)

Period for comments

Period for comments was from 02 June 2006 to 01 July 2006. No comments were received.