MOTHER LIQUOR TREATMENT AND BIOGAS PROJECT SAVINGS ANALYSYS DETAILS

SAVINGS CALCULATIONS
Sr
Description
1 Biogas Generation from Mother Liquor Treatment
Plant
a Mother Liquor + Cow Water disposal quantity

b COD of Mother Liquor + Cow Water

c Total kg COD of Mother Liquor Treatment Plant

d COD reduction efficiency of Mother Liquor digesters

e Coefficient of Biogas generation per kg of COD

reduction

Quantity

Unit

120

m/Day

146

kg/m

17,558
80%

kg/day

0.4

m/kg

f Biogas generation quantity from Mother Liquor

5,707
m/day
Digesters
-- (A)
2 Biogas Generation from Waste Water --Existing 2000 m3/day WWTP
a Waste Water generation Quantity
2,000
m/day
b COD of Waste Water inlet to anaerobic digesters
1.818
kg/m
c Total kg COD
3,637 kg/day
d COD reduction from Anerobic Digesters
65% %
e Coefficient of Biogas generation per kg of COD
0.4
m/kg
reduction

f Bio gas generation from existing WWTP (2000 m/day) - (B)

3 Bio gas generation quantity from proposed WWTP
(1000m/day) -- ( C)
Total Biogas generated -per day -- (A+B+C)
Mother Liquor Operating days
Total Biogas generated --per year
4 Reduction in Daily Furnace Oil Consumption
Net Calorific value of bio gas
Net Calorific value of Furnace Oil
Net Reduction Furnace Oil Consumption
5 Furnace oil cost savings

958

m/day

479

m/day

7,145
365
2,607,986
5,050
9,650
1,364,801

Justification

Reference Document

Mother Liquor Treatment Plant Operating Capacity and Plant production capacities and Mother liquor generation capacity calculations
Cow water generation from the plant.
of the plant.
Thermax Technical Offer: Wws:Tmn:DDIL: Biogas: TCOff-05 dt. 06-Mar-08
(Refer:Thermax Offer-Design Basis,Page No.3) and Plant data
Calculated based on the plant operating capcaity and
Calculated based on,
plant data
Mother Liquor Flow -Thermax Technical Offer: Wws:Tmn:DDIL: Biogas: TCOff-05
dt. 06-Mar-08
Mother Liquor COD - analysis report carried out by MITCON dated 07/02/2008
Cow Water Flow - From plant data
Cow water COD - From plant data
Calculated (Standard formula)
Design specification. (Calculated based on Thermax
offer (Considered inlet COD 400,000 mg/l and outlet
COD 80,000 mg/l). Thus, 320,000 COD reduction which
is 80% of inlet COD)
Calculated value based on :
- IPCC default value of 0.25 Kg CH/Kg COD,
- Methane (CH) content of biogas as 67%
- Density of biogas as 1.089 Kg/m.
- ((0.25/67%)*1.089))=0.4 m/kg
Calculated (Standard formula)

Water Water Treatment Plant capacity.

Average based on operation since 2006
Calculated (Standard formula)
Average based on operation since 2006
Calculated value based on :
- IPCC default value of 0.25 Kg CH/Kg COD,
- Methane (CH) content of biogas as 67%
- Density of biogas as 1.089 Kg/m.
- ((0.25/67%)*1.089))=0.4 m/kg
Calculated (Standard formula)

Thermax Technical Offer: Wws:Tmn:DDIL:Biogas: TCOff-05 dt. 06-Mar-08

(Refer:Thermax Offer-Design Basis,Page No.3)

IPCC default value :Page 6 of AMS III H Version 14,

Methane content : Analysis report carried out by MITCON dt. 19-Jun-08
Density of biogas : Page 11 & 22 of Thermax Technical Offer:
Wws:Tmn:DDIL:Biogas: TCOff-05 dt. 06-Mar-08

Project Commissioning Certificate dt.16-Aug-06

Excel sheet: adittional data
Excel sheet: adittional data
IPCC default value :Page 6 of AMS III H Version 14,
Methane content : Analysis report carried out by MITCON dt. 19-Jun-08
Density of biogas : Page 11 & 22 of Thermax Technical Offer:
Wws:Tmn:DDIL:Biogas: TCOff-05 dt. 06-Mar-08

Design specifications i. e. inlet COD and COD removal

Process flow diagram of existing (2000 m3/day) & proposed (1000 m3/day)
efficiency for existing (2000 m3/day) & proposed (1000 WWTP
m3/day) WWTP are considered as same
m/day Calculated (Standard formula)
days/year Calendar days
m/Year Calculated
kcal/m
kcal/kg
kg/year

As per Lab analysis report

PCRA website
Calculated (Standard Formula)

Biogas Analysis report carried out by MITCON dated 19-Jun-08

http://www.pcra.org/English/latest/book/02-Chapter%20-%202.pdf

Cost of Furnace Oil per Liter

Furnace Oil cost savings per year

21.67

--(D)

29,570,684

INR/kg

INR/year

Annual Report 2007-2008 : Cost of Furnace oil is 21.45

INR/Liter. Considering the density of Furnace oil = 0.99
kg/liter, the cost of furnace oil would be 21.67 INR/kg
Calculated

Furnace Oil Cost - Refer Annual Report 2007-2008 - Form A (Page No. 6), Sr. No.
3
Furnace Oil Density http://www.ncdex.com/Knowledge/PDFs/Oil%20Furnace.pdf