VARAHA – LOCAL COMPOSTING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR HOME

ABOUT VARAHA

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HYPOTHESIS

Conceptualizing a simple, yet effective way to make waste segregation and composting personal effort of the general public through a manner in which they get to compost the kitchen wet waste into bio manure right at home.

DESIGN PARAMETERS

We had to make sure that the product was bullet proof in its design and fool proof in its operation. To be able to achieve the same, We set upon ourselves the following parameters:

Zero human intervention for its operation.
No intellect needed for its operation, only Intuition.
Technical know-how of the decomposing process should not be the problem of the user.
Achieve a “dump it and forget it” method of operation for the product.
Should use readily available items for its manufacturing.

EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED

Temperature Logging
pH Testing
Real-time sampling on plants
Chemical Analysis for:

Composition of manure.
Carbon Nitrogen Ratio Analysis. (currently under way)

SOME STATISTICS & FACTS FOUND

The Energy Research Institute estimates that 1400 sq. km. of land would be required by 2047 for municipal waste.

The MSW generated was estimated to be 1,27,485.11 MT/day by the year 2012. Of which 15,881 MT/day was reported to be treated.

Indian households follow unscientific waste disposal practices

70% of the household cook their own food in India, which leads to increased kitchen waste output.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

It takes the wet waste (kitchen waste) as input and gives out organic manure as output with occasional spraying of nutrient solution.
The input tray is fitted with a shredder which makes the waste into small pieces.
Continual feeding of the bin with wet waste for the 2 months of gestation period results in the wet waste being collected till the brim, at this point a self sufficient micro organic eco-system is established within varaha.
Post the gestation period, the earliest generated wet waste is decomposed into a pH balanced compost and is ready to use!
The first in-first out, in line process ensures you get compost on a daily basis with a 3:1 in-put to out-put ratio.

“What happened to Swach Bharath Andolan?”

BENEFITS

Decreases quantitative load on the municipal bodies to process wet waste.
Beautification of the society.
Revenue generation for homes through sale of compost.
Minimum interference required to ensure effective composting.
No bad odor generated. A very clean process.
For the first time, homes can send back usable compost to the farms and hence have a shake hand relationship with farms.

COMMERCIALS

Manufacturing cost : Rs 3500/-
Shipping Cost : Depends on customer location. Shipping within tumkur city free (Possible when order size is not more than 2 units)
We are trying to refine the chemistry of the initial charge and also come out with different models, Any contribution is much appreciated. We are currently trying to raise a capital of Rs. 45,000/-.

TREND IN TEMPERATURE MONITORED

TEST SUBJECTS WITH MANURE AND WITHOUT MANURE

1) With Manure 2) Without Manure

Note : - All three saplings were planted on Feb 17th 2015. - This image taken on Feb 27th 2015

Chemical Analysis and Reports of the compost generated in "Varaha"

	units	test 1	test 2	test 3	test 4	test 5
nitrogen	%	0.9	1.0	1.1	1.3	1.4
phosphorous	%	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
potassium	%	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
calsium	%	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
magnisium	%	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.1
sulphur	%	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1
iron	ppm	269.0	270.0	270.0	272.0	270.0
manganees	ppm	151.0	143.0	130.0	112.0	107.0
zinc	ppm	30.0	113.0	125.0	115.0	149.0
copper	ppm	25.0	142.0	155.0	160.0	171.0

Elements in percentage

ANALYSIS REPORT

RESULTS

After the initial 10 months of starting the project we had obtained 4 batches of the compost.
Analysis has shown that this compost can be used as manure.
The manure used on plants have shown positive and healthy growth.
No bad odor or excessive dripping of water is observed and can be installed anywhere in the house.
The composition of the manure is reflective of the dietary habits.
The total garbage outflow from the house where “Varaha” was installed and tested was reduced 62% by weight of the waste output.

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