A month-long field trial conducted on 10 selected buses drawn from the Swargate Depot of Pune Municipal Transport (PMT) buses on biodiesel was successful. | |
| The biodiesel, developed under new technology and manufactured by Aurangabad-based Garware Chemical, resulted in higher mileage and negligible emissions according to Niranjan Kumar Sudanshu, general manager, Pune Municipal Transport (PMT). |
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| PMT plys over 850 buses in service in the city and is planning to use the fuel in all the vehicles. Over a period of one year, the move is expected to save PMT Rs 1 crore, which it now spends over diesel and oil. |
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| Apart from this, PMT will become the first public transport undertaking in the country to run buses on green fuel. |
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| "We have already started producing bio-diesel at the rate of 100 tonne per day and the company plans to enhance the capacity to 500 tonne per day within the next six months time," said V N Nandapurkar, GM, marketing, Garware Chemical. |
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| "Garware Chemicals is the first company in India to produce biodiesel on such a large scale on commercial basis. The fuel has also been tested at Indian Oil Corporation's R&D Centre at Faridabad and a prestigious laboratory. It has also passed the stringent BIS norms," he pointed out. |
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