Gas-driven generators
There was a news item on April 12, in a local English daily about Wasa utilising "Gas driven generators" at its Water Treatment Plant, which provides relief from power failure and is cheaper! This is only the confirmation of what is known to the industrial sector and is happening in practically all industrial units in Bangladesh. All of these provide prime power from their own generators, mostly gas driven except diesel driven where gas mains are not available!
The undersigned pioneered this approach, way back in 1987, which was presented as a power and cost saving approach at the seminar on Industrial Gases at New Delhi, India in 1988! The undersigned has further presented a paper on utilising these independent generation resources for integration to the power distribution system for enhancing power carrying capacity of the system at the international conference on Electrical &Computer Engineering at Dhaka in 2002. Again in 2004, when this conference was held at Dhaka, the undersigned presented a paper on utilising gas pressure reducing stations in our natural gas distribution network for generating power from the potential energy of gas pressure reduction. This will NOT NEED ANY FUEL for generating power! In fact this is a source of fuel free power!
Our print media will do a favour if these two ideas are widely publicised and awareness created in the power and energy sector for utilising these untapped resources of power going unutilised; while we suffer massive power shortages!
The USA and Europe and South Africa capitalise on these technologies to enhance their public power network capacity! The State of California(which once suffered a Brown-out power-wise) is now possibly a pioneer in the world for utilising all resources (conventional and non-conventional) to enhance their power network capability!
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