Dr. R.V. Krishnaiah from Chebrolu Engineering College developed an automated technology for collection of toilet waste which is easy to maintain and seven times cheaper alternative to the bio-toilets which can be used to maintain the toilet system of the Indian Railways.
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Existing Bio toilets use anaerobic bacteria for converting human waste to gas, but that bacteria can’t decompose plastic and cloth materials dumped into toilets by passengers.
This is an automated system for collection of toilet waste from running trains and segregation of different materials and processing into usable things.
The technology developed with support from the Advanced Manufacturing Technologies programme of the Department of Science & Technology (DST), aligned with the ‘Make in India’ initiative has been granted five National patents and is in the testing phase.
This technology has been developed targeting the Indian Railways specifically with the aim of cost reduction and to obviate the necessity of time-consuming anaerobic bacteria generation.
