Maximising resource utilisation
This letter is in response to Gen. Moeen's interesting article in your Bangla New Year issue of April 14th.
I am putting some more technically sound and valid practices for maximising electric power utilisation and power generation without fuel--needed for Bangladesh in national interest.
Regarding CFLs (compact fluorescent lamps), I have been writing in the dailies and also the Energy& Power fortnightly (the relevant publication) about it for the last many years. One idea I suggested was to eliminate all import duties on these energy efficient lamps and their components, to make it affordable to the common man. Simultaneously, discourage the use of filament lamps (that we commonly use) by increasing the import duties on its materials and components! This combined step will offset the small financial loss of import duty, if any, on duty free import of CFLs and at the same time reduce our power consumption.
Similarly, increase the duty on electronic starters for fluorescent tube lamps, which are very costly, and therefore not commonly used. It can vastly reduce the power needed in fluorescent tube lights.
These two steps if taken will save us around 250MW all over the country, particularly during maximum demand evening hours when lighting load is at maximum!
Another source of electrical power generation without any fuel being required is from the natural gas pressure drop at the Gas Pressure Reducing
Stations all over Bangladesh. This was presented as a technical paper by the undersigned, at the Int. Computer & Elect. Eng. Conference held in Dhaka in 2004 but unfortunately it fell on deaf ears! By installing these Expansion Turbine Generator Sets in each Pressure Reducing Station in gas transmission line we can possibly generate around 500MW of electricity in Bangladesh without using any fuel whatsoever!
These subjects being my technical hobby, as well as my fond desire to implement, I would request General Moeen to seriously take it up in the overall national interest.
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