Shivaji Bhandarkar, M.K. Mishra
The study is concerned with the development, encouragement and use of more environment-friendly forms of alternative fuels for Telecom Tower Generator sets. These innovative solutions encompass new more environment-friendly Telecom Tower technologies (and also innovative Green Energy concepts with potential for lowering environmental impacts, such as minimizing exhaust emissions) .This study mainly deals with the sustainable development Telecom Towers by the use of Alternative fuel-Bio-diesel. Particularly it focuses on the suggestion to curb the generator pollution by the use of bio-diesel. In this study the pollution loads have been calculated and compared by considering usage of the bio-diesel in place of conventional diesel fuel in Generators. The total money which we can save by the use of bio-diesel is also calculated and shown here. For the purpose of this study, the all the Towers of Department of Telecom (DOT) were considered. In India about 6 lakh telecom towers have been constructed. These towers get power from diesel fuel and are responsible for large amount of lead emissions and various other pollutants. The pollution loads were calculated on the basis of information collected from the Telecom Regulatory Authority India (TRAI) Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and previous studies carried out in this regard by various important agencies. The use of Bio-diesel shows tremendous reduction in various pollutants. By the use of B20 Bio-diesel we can reduce total unburnt hydrocarbons to 20%, Carbon monoxide to 12%, PM10 and PM25 to 12%, NOx +2 or -2%, SO2 to 20%. By the use of B100 Bio-diesel we can reduce total unburnt hydrocarbons to 67%, Carbon monoxide to 48%, PM10 and PM25 to 47%, NOx +10or -2%, SO2 to 100.
Share this article