An 81-year-old engineer from Tamil Nadu has been knocking on many doors to market his RDF (refusederived fuel) power plant with proven track record in Malaysia and applauded in the US and Europe. Mr K. S.

Sivaprasad, managing director, Innovision Engineers, is meeting Chennai’s mayor on Tuesday morning hoping he would be able to convince him that the one crore tonnes of garbage that the city has piled up over the year could get rid of its power famine.

A mechanical engineer from the Guindy engineering college, Mr Prasad had developed the technology for conversion of municipal solid waste into ‘clean burning fuel’ for use in boilers to generate steam and produce power. When he presented it at a UN conference of environment ministers of the AsiaPacific region at Bangkok in 1995, it was hailed as the best green energy system in the region........Read More

Source: EAI