Business Idea

Ankur Scientific, a company established in 1986, has been in the forefront of developmental activities in the area of non-conventional energy sources. Set up by Dr. B.C. Jain, an internationally acclaimed technocrat, the company has, since its inception, an enviable record of technology development in the area of Biomass Gasification and commercialized a very wide range of biomass gasifiers.

A number of field installations in industrial applications and rural electrification are a testimony not only to the reliability of the gasifiers over a number of years of successful operation, but also of the growing acceptance of the technology developed by the company.

Social and Environmental Impact

A major benefit of substituting biomass for fossil fuels is that, it reduces emissions of greenhouses gases. The amount of carbon dioxide released when biomass is burned is nearly the same as the amount required to replenish the plants grown to produce the biomass. Similarly, if biomass wastes such as crop residues or municipal solid wastes are used for energy in company's systems, there would be no net greenhouse gas emissions.

The use of Biomass based Gasifier and Biogas systems, which are one of the sources of renewable energy, controls the social, economical and environmental problems. With the installations of these systems the total emission reduction over a period of time can exponentially increase.

The biomass based gasifier system can eliminate problem of power shortage and provide equitable, round the clock, quality electricity to the rural areas.

Their technology not only contributes in mitigating climate change but when locally produced it decreases the national dependence on imported energy and increases local employment. It, therefore, provides rural prosperity and empowerment as almost 80% of the cost of power generation goes back to the rural community in terms of cost of biomass residues and generation of large scale manpower employment.