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1. Beneficios sociales y ambientales generados por la recuperación del bosque en la cuenca del río Chinchipe.
Objetivo Mejorar el nivel de vida de la población local de la cuenca del río Chinchipe del municipio de Zamora en Ecuador y de la provincia de San Ignacio en Cajamarca a través de un manejo sostenible de los recursos naturales, garantizando y aprovechado los servicios ambientales mediante la implementación de sistemas silvopastoriles y la recuperación de suelos degradados por cambio de uso de tierra. Se pretende luego replicar la experiencia en otras zonas donde la actividad ganadera se presente como factor de destrucción del bosque y donde los sistemas silvopastoriles tengan una ventaja comparativa para su recuperación y generación de servicios ambientales. - Actores Involucrados - Centro de investigación Economía y Desarrollo (CIED). - Posiblemente el programa "Livestock Environment and Development" (LEAD).
2. "Conservación, Uso Sostenible y Rentable de la Biodiversidad de Plantas Medicinales Nativas Altoandinas por Pisos Ecológicos por la Población Campesina de Ayacucho"
Con el proyecto "Conservación y Uso Sostenible y Rentable de la Biodiversidad de Plantas Medicinales Nativas Altoandinas, por Pisos Ecológicos, por la Población Campesina de Ayacucho", se establecieron nuevas prácticas de cultivo de plantas aromáticas y medicinales, introducidas en la estructura productiva de las comunidades, rescatando recursos de diversidad biológica, que permitieron aliviar la pobreza de comunidades campesinas tradicionalmente marginales, y a la vez, con la introducción de diversas variedades para su comparación con las nativas, brindar un servicio global de conservación de recursos genéticos.
Con la participación organizada de los comuneros y mediante la capacitación y asistencia técnica, se desarrolló un conjunto de técnicas no contaminantes, adecuadas a las condiciones ambientales, especialmente difíciles por la incidencia de heladas y topografía del terreno, lográndose construir invernaderos de plástico para 22 familias, así como andenes y terrazas con un man
3. ?PROPUESTA INNOVADORA Y SOSTENIBLE DE EVACUACIÓN, TRATAMIENTO Y REUSO DE RESI DUOS SÓLIDOS Y LÍQUIDOS DOMÉSTICOS?
Resumen ejecutivo
El proyecto "Propuesta Innovadora y Sostenible de Evacuación, Tratamiento y Reuso de Residuos Sólidos y Líquidos Domésticos" fue implementado en San Juan de Lurigancho, con el objetivo de aportar a la gestión del hábitat de esta zona y otras de características similares, una propuesta innovadora y sostenible para la evacuación, el tratamiento y la reutilización de los residuos sólidos y líquidos domésticos.
El logro de las metas propuestas permitió la construcción y funcionamiento de 36 módulos de saneamiento básico, bajo el sistema de instalación de ecoinodoros y microplantas de fitotramiento de las aguas servidas; en este proceso se plasmó la participación de diversas instituciones como la Universidad Agraria La Molina, El Centro de Salud, los Comités Ambientales y de Parques; la constitución de estos últimos se dio en el marco de la implementación del presente proyecto.
El proyecto tiene un alto potencial de replicabilidad, habiéndose iniciado experienci
4. Adaptación de Técnicas de Manejo Sostenible de Queresa de San José en Manzano (cultivar Delicious viscas), para Pequeña Propiedad en el Valle de Mala y Costa Central
Este Subproyecto busca recuperar la calidad del producto reduciendo el riesgo que representa la queresa de San José mediante la validación de un conjunto de prácticas no tóxicas para su control que aunque eficaces en climas templados donde se originó el manzano, deben adaptarse a las condiciones de la costa central y de cultivar Delicious viscas que permiten obtener cosecha todo el año pero favorecen el desarrollo de las plagas.
El Subproyecto busca también fortalecer las organizaciones demandantes que conforman la alianza, facilitando su prestación de servicios de asistencia técnica a otros productores via el servicio de alquiler de equipos para combatir la queresa.
5. Anaerobic digestion of waste water from coffee mills
Coffee mills generate large amounts of waste water containing high concentrations of organic compounds with COD values of 10-60 kg COD/m3.
In Costa Rica there are almost 100 coffee processing plants. Up to the 1990?s, the main waste products - coffee pulp and process waters - were generally discharged in the nearest-by river, provoking enourmous pollution.
In 1992, the local government, together with representatives of the coffee sector, signed an agreement with the objective to substantially reduce the pollution load on the rivers.
BTG then developed, introduced and implemented low cost anaerobic reactors which were able to meet the governmental requirements and which proved to be a good alternative to other existing technologies.
6. Bio-prospecting in Suriname (for pharmaceutical use)
Bio-prospecting is the systematic search for biochemical and genetic information in natural sources that can be developed into commercially-valuable products for pharmaceutical, agricultural, and other applications. In 1993 the International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (ICBG), a U.S. government funded program, awarded a grant to five different institutions which submitted a joint project proposal for Suriname. The five institutions include an international non-governmental conservation organization, a Suriname pharmaceutical company, an American botanical research institution; and an American pharmaceutical company. The ICBG group works with local tribe people, the Saramaka Maroons, who have developed a rich and expansive understanding of the medicinal qualities of Suriname?s forest plants .
7. Boiler Logic Modification.
M/S OSWAL CHEMICALS&FERTILISERS LIMITED, SHAHJANPUR,is a natural
gas based nitrogenous fertiliser plant having a capacity of 2250 tpd urea &1350
tpd of ammonia. In offsites plant two service boilers of 100te/hr capacity at 112 Ksc
and 515 deg centigrade. It also having two Gas turbine generators, at a rating of
20.8 mw at 11kv along with heat recovery steam generators apart from other
utilities. Turn over of the company is around 222 Million US $.
8. Cataguases Carbon Sequestration Project
The objective of this case is to identify project-based activities in Brazil that will generate permanent and verifiable greenhouse-gas reduction benefits eligible for crediting under emerging criteria for emissions offsets. The case will describe possible project options involving forest conservation and restoration with native species, quantify the likely carbon benefits that would result from each option, and make recommendations as to the implementation of a carbon-sequestration project that would provide multiple biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and greenhouse-gas mitigation benefits.
9. Chemical Industry: reducing wastewater acidity in fertilizer production
Fertilizers and Chemicals LTD is a medium-sized chemical company with about 270 employees and produces liquid fertilizer formulations, water treatment chemicals and organic intermediates. Process information: the filter cake of raw acidic nitration product is soaked with sulphuric and nitric acids. The filter cake is not washed before dissolution for purification, because the wet cake hardens and then becomes very difficult to peel off. Thus large amounts of acids end up in the wastewater, which needs to be neutralized, and after concentration, equally large amounts of concentrate are generated which need to be disposed of at high cost. The purification step following organic nitration synthesis usually leads to the formation of large quantities of wastewater polluted with inorganic sulphates and nitrates, along with unwanted isomers as by-products. Wastewater treatment is expensive, involving neutralization and concentration, then incineration.
10. Cinnamon Organic Farming at Gando Village
Gando village is located in the northern part of Pemba Island, about 25 km from Wete town. In 1999 the village was contacted by Tanzania Zanzibar Organic Producers (TAZOP) Ltd for purposes of buying organic cinnamon and black pepper. As a result TAZOP Ltd conducted training courses in the village on the introduction to organic farming systems. By the end of 1999 a total of 65 farmers were registered as organic farmers. In 2005 the village had a total of 92 certified organic farmers. Apart from food crops and fruit trees such as cassava, banana, mangoes, oranges etc., the villagers grow spice crops such as cinnamon, cloves, black pepper and vanilla. Other spice crops are cadimon, lemon grass and tumeric.
11. Cold Pad Batch Dyeing of Cellulosic Fabric with Reactive Dyes
Most Australian textile mills still use traditional dyeing methods. To enable the dye to take to the fabric, undyed rolls undergo many hours of rough treatment, including the use of a variety of chemicals, wear and tear by machines, large amounts of hot and cold water; and treatment with up to 0.5 kg (1.10 pounds) of salt per kilogram (2.20 pounds)of fabric.
12. Comprehensive Energy Audit- Nigahi Open Cast Project
Brief introduction about the organisation where case is implemented
Organisation : Northern Coalfields Limited
Product : Non Coking Coal
Production Capacity:
(i) Coal :47.033 Million Tonne(2003-04)
(ii) Overburden :142.33 Million Cu.Metre(2003-04)
iv) Process- Opencast Mining
a) Drilling and blasting of overburden and coal seam
b) Overburden removal by Electric driven draglines and
Shovel/Dumper combination
c) Coal mining by Shovel/Dumper combination
d) Deshaling(beneficiation/washing) of coal
e) Coal despatch by Coal Handling Plants through Merry
Go round system,Public Railway System and Ropeway
etc. to power stations.
Exisiting Technology
Electrical transmission, transformer and distribution system
ii) Township and industrial lighting system
iii) Power Supply to electric driven draglines and shovels
iv) Power Supply to mine pumps, workshop and Coal Handling Plant
v) Utilisation of dumpers
13. Control de ganancia solar en estaciones de pesaje
The roofs for different truck weighting stations were designed in order to gain more or less solar energy according to the weather in each region.
14. Conversion of Incinerator fuel from RFO to Biogas
Products : Pyridine and its derivatives; Bulk Organic Chemicals viz. Acitic Acid, Acitic Anhydride, VAM, Catalysts, Fertilisers
Production Capacity : 300 TPD Ethyl Alcohol is produced from Molasses
To produce various abovementioned products.
Process : Chemical Processes
Turnover : INR 10 billion per annum
Location : Gajroula ( U.P. ) , India -100 km from Delhi on NH-24 towards Lucknow.
The incinerator installed was meant to incinerate the toxic and hazardous effluent released from the pyridine and its derivatives plants.
The burner provided was a dual fuel ( Natural Gas cum RFO ) burner.
The fuel to be used was RFO @ 1TPH costing Rs.10000/Ton x 24 hrs.x360days
=Rs.86.4 millions per annum (1.920 Million US $ per annum)
15. Creation of the Usina Mauricio Private Reserve
Through the creation of the Usina Mauricio Private Reserve, the Cataguazes-Leopoldina Power company launched a large project whose goal is the protection and restoration of the extremely diverse Atlantic Forest in the company?s service territory.
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