Bangladesh's first biodrying plant to be set up in Sylhet

Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) is set to establish the country's first biodrying plant as part of its modern waste management initiative, aiming to transform municipal waste into fuel and bring a major change to urban waste management.

The development was discussed in detail at a view-exchange meeting held at the SCC headquarters on Tuesday afternoon.

Speaking at the meeting, SCC Administrator Abdul Quiyum Choudhury

said the project is intended to modernise and make the city's waste management system more environment-friendly.

“We want to establish this biodrying plant to modernise the city's waste management and make it environmentally sustainable. By converting waste into fuel, it will help create a circular economy,” he said.

Experts at the meeting explained that biodrying is an advanced waste treatment technology. Municipal waste typically contains around 70 percent organic material and a high amount of moisture.

In conventional waste-to-energy systems such as incineration, processing wet waste is expensive and technically challenging.

Under the biodrying process, the natural metabolic heat generated by microorganisms and controlled airflow are used to rapidly remove excess moisture from household waste, sewage sludge and agricultural waste. Once dried, the waste becomes suitable for use as fuel, making the technology particularly effective in the context of Bangladesh.

SCC Chief Executive Officer Muhammad Razaie Rafin Sarker, Secretary Md Ashick Nur, acting Chief Engineer Md Ali Akbar, Chief Waste Management Mohammad Aklem Abden, Executive Engineer (Electrical) Joydeb Biswas and Executive Engineer (Mechanical) Mohammad Ullah were present at the meeting.

Representatives of LafargeHolcim Bangladesh PLC were also present at the meeting, reports UNB.