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Since the warfare successful West Asia began a period ago, hotels and industries successful Belagavi person been facing the shortage of commercialized LPG cylinders.
However, a 3rd of them person switched to biomass-based stoves, h2o heaters and steam generators, acknowledgment to Sameer Kanabargi, an innovator and entrepreneur who runs Phoenix Industries.
For implicit 35 years, this tiny portion successful the Udyambag Industrial Estate successful Belagavi has been silently moving successful the tract of alternate vigor sources and disseminating exertion developed by premier institutions similar IIT, IISc, TERI and others.
Phoenix Industries has designed and produced a scope of instrumentality for the Indian Army and the Border Security Force.
Some of the implicit 2 twelve tools and implements produced by Mr. Kanabargi are his ain inventions.
Phoenix produces biomass-based stoves, h2o heaters, gasifiers, steam generators and different equipment. They tin beryllium utilized to provender a tiny household of 2 to a assemblage of 2 lakh.
They usage inputs, including agriculture discarded similar bagasse, stems, leaves and different workplace residue, twigs, histrion branches, coconut shells oregon different waste, paper, cardboard and plywood.
“The input tin beryllium immoderate inflammable discarded material. There is nary request to modify immoderate of our equipment,” Mr. Kanabargi said.
It is estimated that astir 150 of the 350 hotels and astir 100 tiny and mean industries successful Belagavi and Maharashtra person switched to biomass-based stoves and burners.
Some of them person made the power present portion those that had stopped utilizing them person returned to the renewable and low-cost vigor source.
The existent LPG shortage has accrued the request by aggregate times and the mill is moving successful 3 shifts to conscionable the demand.
“I deliberation the request and inquiries we person got successful the past 10 days is adjacent to the request we received successful the past 10 years,” helium said.
“While we request to trust connected overseas countries for LPG supply, biomass is easy disposable each astir us. In agrarian areas, it is virtually free, portion successful the cities, it costs astir ₹5-₹7 per kg. Three kilograms of biomass gives the aforesaid magnitude of vigor vigor arsenic 1 kilo of LPG. But then, the last outgo works retired to beryllium 40%-50% cheaper. Industries that usage our products person recovered the outgo successful 30-100 days,” helium said.
Mr. Kanabargi was among the earliest adopters of the ASTRA Ole nary fume chulha designed by IISc’s Centre for Application of Science and Technology for Rural Areas.
“We produced implicit 20,000 exemplary ASTRA Ole that were fixed to agrarian mediocre by the authorities and different agencies. He was among the fewer industrialists invited by IIT Bombay for a feasibility survey of biomass-based gasifiers and different tools.
He wide produced biomass stoves designed by TERI nether its hold programme. He designed a portable country heater that runs connected conifer needles for BSF unit moving successful sub zero temperatures and transferred the exertion free.
Mr. Kanabargi says helium has this streak of “think differently” from the crowd. “It each started erstwhile I was successful ninth standard,” helium recalls.
He designed a multi-purpose room stove that tin navigator atom and make blistery h2o astatine the aforesaid time. He won a State-level grant for the project. He inactive keeps the moving exemplary successful his office.
He inherited a mill from his begetter Surendra Kanabargi but soon shifted absorption to innovation-based products.
He designed and produced sheep shearing kits and modern Charkhas utilizing bicycle wheels that were faster and needed little labour. These units were commissioned by the India Development Society founded by activists S.R. Hiremath and Shyamala Hiremath.
Dayanand Appayyanavarmath, proprietor of Shri Basaveshwara Khanavali, has introduced biomass-based stoves and heaters successful each his eateries.
“Earlier, we needed 2 commercialized cylinders each day. But by utilizing biomass stoves, we are redeeming up to ₹600 per day. Moreover, we bash not request to beryllium connected immoderate bureau to proviso america cylinders. If each 1 adopts this, we tin prevention precious overseas exchange,” helium said.
President of Belgaum Hotel Owners Association Ajay Pai was utilizing biomass stoves from 2006 to 2014. “We stopped owed to easiness of usage of cylinders. But we returned to biomass stoves. We usage coconut feathers, coconut shells, cultivation discarded and firewood. Steam is produced portion cooking successful the 2 stoves that we usage to vigor idlis and milk. We besides vigor h2o and usage it for cooking,” helium said.
