Dairy Farm Waste Management; An Approach For River Water Restoration, Environment Improvement and Waste to Energy Generation, in Delhi, India

Dilip K. Sharma; Uma Bhargav; Fengting Li

Volume : III, Issue : VI, June - 2014

Dairy Farm Waste Management; An Approach For River Water Restoration, Environment Improvement and Waste to Energy Generation, in Delhi, India

Dilip K. Sharma, Uma Bhargav, Fengting Li

Abstract :

During a study to abate the environmental pollution load and improve the water quality of the river Yamuna in Delhi, India, a major component �Dairy Farm Waste� had been recognized as one of the prominent source of wastewater pollution and solid waste discharge. Cattle excreta was discharged and dumped from authorized dairy farms and has emerged to be one of the major non- point source of water pollution and point source for land pollution in Delhi. The estimated biogas emission from dairy farm waste was 42222 m3/day (approx.), leading to hazardous environmental impacts. According to the current findings, electricity generation of 3.7 MW (approx.) can be achieved by utilizing the available technical cattle excreta, which have 32034 m3 (approx.) of biogas generation potential per day. The study represents policy implications and other major findings/ data obtained by commencing survey, laboratory analysis, and site observations during planning of Dairy Farm Waste Management