How much organic waste can the multi-feedstock bio-CNG plant at Prayagraj process every day?
- A.143 tonnes
- B.243 tonnes
- C.343 tonnes
- D.443 tonnes
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Explanation
The correct answer is 343 tonnes. The plant in Uttar Pradesh takes in that quantity of organic waste each day and yields about twenty-one tonnes of bio-CNG, along with twenty-eight tonnes of good quality compost that goes to farmers nearby. Its multi-feedstock design accepts wet waste, paddy straw, cattle dung and poultry litter, which is what lets it give crop residue a paying use instead of leaving it to be burnt. Options A at 143 tonnes, B at 243 tonnes and D at 443 tonnes are near misses built by changing the leading digit, a trap that catches a candidate who remembers only the last two digits of the figure. Aspirants should also hold on to the linked numbers for this plant: daily wet-waste supply has risen from seven or eight tonnes to about 125 tonnes, piped gas is expected to reach roughly 45,000 households, and annual emissions are expected to fall by about 57,000 tonnes.
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Practice Questions
In which city is Adarsh Gaushala, described as India's first modern self-sufficient gaushala built around a compressed bio-gas plant?
- A.Bhopal
- B.Gwalior
- C.Indore
- D.Jabalpur
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Adarsh Gaushala stands at Laltipara and is the city's largest cowshed, home to more than ten thousand cattle. Its compressed bio-gas plant of 100 tonnes per day opened in October 2024, spread over five acres, cost 31 crore rupees and was developed with Indian Oil Corporation.
Read the full explanation →The Bowenpally Vegetable Market, whose streetlights run on electricity made from vegetable waste, is in which city?
- A.Bengaluru
- B.Chennai
- C.Hyderabad
- D.Pune
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At the Bowenpally Vegetable Market roughly ten tonnes of vegetable and fruit waste is collected each day, and since an on-site biogas plant came up almost all of it is used rather than sent to landfill.
Read the full explanation →In which month and year was the Swachh Bharat Mission launched?
- A.October 2014
- B.August 2014
- C.October 2015
- D.April 2016
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Scientific management of municipal solid waste has been a core objective of the mission since that launch, and as the mission grew, organic waste came to be treated as a resource for clean energy rather than as rubbish.
Read the full explanation →Since ethanol supply year 2014-15, how much foreign exchange has the ethanol blending programme saved?
- A.More than Rs 62,000 crore
- B.More than Rs 1.01 lakh crore
- C.More than Rs 1.66 lakh crore
- D.More than Rs 1.97 lakh crore
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The ministry listed four cumulative outcomes of the blending programme since ethanol supply year 2014-15: foreign exchange savings above that amount, substitution of about 316 lakh metric tonnes of crude oil, avoidance of about 952 lakh metric tonnes of carbon dioxide, and transfers of more than Rs 1.66 lakh crore…
Read the full explanation →What ethanol content was recorded on average in the samples tested in Karnataka?
- A.19.30 per cent
- B.21.50 per cent
- C.26 per cent
- D.31 per cent
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All 56 samples tested in Karnataka, taken from different locations and from all three oil marketing companies, conformed to the prescribed specification, with ethanol content ranging between 19 and 20 per cent and averaging that figure.
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