CEE Oct-Dec 2012

First Monitoring period will be 01.01 . 2015 - 12.31. 2015. Reporting • By 30 April every year, green house gas emissions monitored in the previous year between 1 January and 31 December should be reported and submitted to the Ministry Within this scope, the verified report belonging to the first monitoring period ( 1 January 2015 - 31 December 2015) should be submitted to the Ministry until 04.30.2016. Validation and other procedures and pri nciples Before submitting to the Ministry, the prepared plans and reports should be verified by the "Verifier Institutions" accredited by TURKAK and authorized by the Ministry. Other procedure and principles of monitoring, reporting and monitoring plan of greenhouse gas emissions will be regulated by the communiques to be prepared by the Ministry. Courtesy: Cement and Concrete World, March, April2012, Pp57-59. ACC WANTS CHANGES IN POLICY TO BURN MUNICIPAL WASTE IN CEMENT Kll NS The best way to handle the problem of disposal of municipal or industrial waste is to burn it in cement kilns, says ACC Ltd . However, to achieve this, some tweaking of the policy is required. Burning waste in cement kilns is better than destroying them in incinerators or using them as landfill, says Ulhas Parlikar, Director - Geocycle Business, ACC Ltd. Parlikar is also the Chairman of Cll Initiative on Increasing AFR Usage in Cement Industry. AFR refers to alternative fuels and raw materials. Temperature inside a cement kiln can go as high as 2,000 degree Celsius. For technical reasons, the "residence time" of the gases is also "very, very long" - 10 seconds. Furthermore, the emissions out of the ki lns do not get influenced by the burning of these waste materials, Parlikar told Business Line last week. He said this 'co-processing' was an established technology and burni ng waste in cement kilns is a routine thing in the developed countries. Industrial and munici pal wastes, expired medicines and foods and contraband items, are all best destroyed in cement kilns. Organic matter become calcium compounds and can be removed, while inorganic wastes become part of the clinker. Carbon intensive Parlikar sa id the production of one tonne of clinker emits a minimum of 850 kg C0 2 wh ich makes the cement industry one of the most carbon-intensive industry. ACC, on its part, has IIIUU"'U IGI GIIU IIIUIII'-It'GI wastes, expired medicines and foods and contraband items, are best destroyed in cement kilns. been "actively pursuing" utilization of alternative raw materials in kilns. The company has been co– processing wastes at some of its plants but for a pan-country effort and some policy push is needed. "what we want is not incentives, but framework," Parlikar said. Inter-State movement of hazardous waste for co-processing should be encouraged as it is a recovery option, where the use of waste (from within/outside the State) reduces the natural resource consumption of the State. At present, there are not emission norms set for cement plants undertaking co-processing activity. Maximum, permissible emission norms should be put in place for cement kilns undertaking co-processing. A cement plant which fulfils the co-processing prequalification criteria should be issued a permit to co-process all types of waste, while remaining within maximum permissible emission norms. There is a need to create 'waste banks' that can combine, collate and share information on the different types of waste. Courtesy: The Business Line, 22"d Sep. 2012, P3. -Ra::FN WASTE PMC leverages Concord Blue's WtE technology The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), in partnership with Concord Blue Technology Private Limited , has developed a 10 MW waste-to– energy (WtE) power plant at the Ramtekdi Industrial Area in Hadapsar in the eastern suburb of Pune. Unlike other WtE plants in the country, PMC's power plant deploys Concord 44