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On-site energy from
what hospitals
already throw away.

Kitchen waste, STP sludge, and biomedical-adjacent organic streams converted into clean cooking gas and digestate, with audit-grade compliance documentation built in. The plant slots into existing facilities operations without disrupting clinical workflows.

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What makes hospitals different

The clinical-side segregation that makes this work.

Hospital waste streams cannot mix. Anaesthetic, pharma, sharps, and pathological waste must remain in their own colour-coded streams under BMW Rules. What our plants accept is the kitchen-side organic stream and STP sludge, already separated by your housekeeping team.

Yellow / red, Bio-medical (excluded)
Goes to CBWTF
Black, General waste (excluded)
Municipal pickup
Green, Kitchen organic (accepted)
Direct to plant
STP sludge (accepted)
Co-digested
How it works · in this sector

From waste to working plant.

Same four-stage process across every sector, but tuned to the inputs, peaks, and outputs that matter here.

P.01
Kitchen + STP
Segregated organic streams collected daily
P.02
Pre-treatment
Shredding, slurry prep, pH adjustment
P.03
Anaerobic digester
Mesophilic, 30–35 days retention
P.04
Gas + digestate
Scrubbed biogas to canteen + slurry to landscaping
Feedstock

What goes in.

The substrate determines plant size, gas yield, and everything downstream. Here is what we typically design for in this sector.

F.01
Canteen & kitchen waste
60–250 kg/day
Cooked food, peels, plate waste from staff and patient catering.
F.02
STP sludge
0.3–1 m³/day
Co-digested with food waste, reduces sludge disposal cost simultaneously.
F.03
Garden & horticulture
Seasonal
Leaves, grass clippings used as supplementary substrate.
Plant sizing · interactive estimate

Drag. See your plant.

Slide to your scale. The output ranges below are based on typical performance from plants we operate. Final numbers come after a feedstock audit and DPR.

Daily organic waste
400kg/day
1001,000
Daily biogas
,
LPG offset / month
,
CO₂e avoided / yr
,
Power equivalent / day
,
Hospital plants typically pay back in 4–6 years on gas savings + sludge disposal cost reduction combined.
Estimates are illustrative ranges. Site-specific output depends on feedstock quality, weather, and operating conditions.

Built around the regulations that govern hospitals.

Compliance is engineered in from the design stage, sensor-driven audit trails, automatic reporting, and pre-filled regulatory submissions are part of the plant, not bolted on afterward.

✓
Bio-Medical Waste Rules · 2016
Confirms organic kitchen and STP streams are separately handled, not BMW.
✓
SWM Rules · 2016 (Schedule II)
Bulk generator obligation, hospitals >100 kg/day waste must process on-site or contract authorised handler.
✓
State PCB Consent
Consent to Establish + Consent to Operate; we handle filings.
✓
NABH / NABL alignment
Plant operations integrated into your existing accreditation audit trail.
vs. the alternatives

Better than what you do today.

Compared head-to-head against the three things you might do instead with the same waste stream.

Dimension
BioSarthi
Haul-away
Composting
Landfill
Energy recovery
Yes · gas to canteen + digestate
No
Partial · digestate only
No
Compliance trail
Sensor logs · auto-generated
Manifest only · paper
Manual · operator-logged
None
Footprint on campus
50–150 m² · enclosed
Bins + truck access
200–400 m² · open
Off-site
Odour management
Closed digester · negligible
High at storage
High during turning
High at site
Recurring cost
Low · O&M only
₹40–80k/month
Labour-heavy
Tipping fee + transport
From decision to dispatch

Five phases. Predictable.

A typical hospitals deployment moves through these five phases. Timelines are real, not aspirational.

01
01 / Site audit
Week 1
Feedstock measurement, space survey, regulatory check.
02
02 / DPR + design
Weeks 2–4
Detailed Project Report, plant sizing, regulatory filings.
03
03 / Construction
Months 2–5
Civil works, digester install, gas line and burner integration.
04
04 / Commissioning
Month 6
Sensor calibration, methane stabilisation, training.
05
05 / Live + monitored
Ongoing
AI yield optimisation, predictive maintenance, monthly reports.
Plant snapshots

Inside an operating hospitals plant.

Visual landmarks of a typical plant in this sector. Real photos go here once approved by the operator.

Digester
Concrete-housed digester with sensor stack
Gas line
Scrubbed biogas piped to canteen burners
Dashboard
Sensor data on facilities team's screens
Slurry bay
Digestate collection for landscaping reuse
Illustrations · representative · real photographs available on request
In their words

Hospitals already running.

A small selection of operators we work with in this sector.

"Our kitchen waste used to be a contractor problem. Now it runs the staff canteen stove."
Sustainability Lead
Tertiary care hospital, NCR
180 kg/day · live since 2024
"The audit trail saves us a week per quarter on PCB filings."
Facilities Manager
Multi-specialty, Punjab
90 kg/day · live since 2023
Frequently asked

Things hospitals always ask.

Six questions we hear in nearly every first conversation with a hospitals operator.

No. Those must continue to flow to a CBWTF (Common Bio-Medical Waste Treatment Facility) under BMW Rules 2016. Our plants accept only kitchen organic and STP sludge, both already separated upstream.
Roughly 80–120 m² of footprint, including digester tank, pre-treatment bay, and gas-storage. Most hospital campuses absorb this in service-yard or behind-MEP-block locations.
Plants tolerate 30–40% feedstock variation without intervention. For longer dips (e.g. summer break at teaching hospitals) we co-feed garden waste or temporarily reduce output.
Yes, scrubbed biogas meets cooking-grade specifications. We typically pipe it to staff canteens first, with a clean transition path to patient kitchens once you have institutional confidence.
The plant generates an automated audit trail, feedstock weights, gas output, digestate disposal, that integrates cleanly into your existing accreditation evidence files.
You do. We design, construct, commission, and operate under O&M contract. Models including BOOT (Build-Own-Operate-Transfer) and OPEX-only also exist if you prefer.

Designing for hospitals?

30 minutes with our team. Walk out with a feedstock audit checklist, indicative plant size, and a clear next step.

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How we serve this sector

Six services. Pick what you need.

Some clients start with monitoring on an existing plant. Others come for a full turnkey build. We meet the operator where they are.

01 Real-time monitoring→ Patented IoT layer. Methane, gas, efficiency, uptime — across every plant. 02 AI yield prediction→ Forecast gas output 7–14 days ahead from feedstock, weather, and digester telemetry. 03 Turnkey plant delivery→ End-to-end plant build. From DPR to commissioning. Single contract, single team. 04 Waste-to-energy consulting→ Feasibility, DPR, GOBARdhan, SATAT, cluster planning. Owner-side strategy. 05 O&M and remote ops→ 24/7 operations. Remote monitoring + on-site engineers + performance guarantees. 06 FOM / LFOM playbook→ Turn the by-product into a second revenue line. GOBARdhan-aligned, offtake-ready.
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