Title: Creating a Sustainable Clean Green Plant (SGP) by Generating Solar Bio Energy from Wastewater and waste

Biography:

Joy Manglani is an Environment Scientist & Inventor. He holds the prestigious B. Tech. degree from the premier IIT Delhi in Chemical Engineering. He is a founder (since 1983) and President of NGO - Only Nature Endures (ONE) also called OneNature where he trains interns and seniors. He invents and promotes Sustainable Technologies for Joyful Life and Healthy Environment. Has experience of successfully inventing and applying technologies in the fields of Water and Sanitation, Eco-friendly Handcrafted Textiles & Clothing, Organic Farming, Eco-friendly Asbestos Cement, Business revival, Thermal Engineering, Awareness and Justice. His breakthrough invention above can help in solving the Water and Sanitation problem. He was an Advisor to Government of Maharashtra (India) on Water and Sanitation Technologies. He was also an Advisor to Government of India for Safe Industrial Technology.

 

 

Abstract

Creating a Sustainable Clean Green Planet (SGP) by generating Solar Bio-Energy using wastewater and waste and storing it in the form of oxygen rich healthy vegetation, soil, bio-mineral fertilizer, water, oxygen and life, is a new, tried tested invention and goal of the author.

Excreta are wonderful natural products. One person’s excreta, if properly used, as in SGP, can help produce food of at least 4 persons! Implying there will be no food shortage. Moreover the surplus can help to make us self reliant and the planet greener. The solar energy conversion and storage efficiency is about 100% in plants versus about 20% conversion efficiency and 0% storage efficiency in solar cells.

Waste is unused material or energy. Wastewater and waste are grave problems today, even though they are very useful. Sewage is 99% clean flush water and 1% valuable nutrients (organic and inorganics) including about 40% healthy bacteria that make up the entire living ecosystem.  Our current sanitation methods e.g. Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) decompose valuable organics in waste and wastewater to GHGs, foul effluents and gases, acids and sludge that degrade air, land and water. They also breed pathogens, mosquitoes and pests. They are unsafe for workers, require skilled staff and immense electricity. They lead to major problems such as air and water pollution, water scarcity, loss of soil fertility, global warming, climate change, poor economy, poor health and loss of life.

SGP solves these problems. In SGP, solid and liquid waste, both organic and inorganic including excreta, food, several chemicals, sewage, industrial wastewater, raw water, stormwater and polluted water bodies are completely recomposed not decomposed in highly aerobic conditions, using stabilization, photosynthesis, gravity and bio-filtration in a bioreactor with a media of inorganic waste. There are no leftovers. SGP functions even in the absence of sunlight. It can function wherever plants can grow, which is observed even in snow.

SGP has been operated successfully at a large lab and 200-people field scale. The SGP effluent quality is far superior to STPs. SGP units can be made on a family scale to a large municipal or industrial scale. SGP requires only about 25% land, 1% electricity, 40% capital and 15% O&M cost compared to STPs. SGP can thus, efficiently help create a Sustainable Clean Green Healthy Planet. Being new, SGP needs awareness.