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Feedstock in. Gas to GAIL. Fertiliser back to the farm.

One digester, two products, one catchment. Follow the tonnes and the rupees through a 10 TPD plant as it is designed to run. Figures are design values from the evaluated DPR; operating figures publish after commissioning.

How an Ikshu Bio plant works Feedstock from farms and mills is weighed, digested in CSTR tanks, purified to IS 16087:2025 and compressed; BioCNG is sold to GAIL. Digestate becomes organic fertiliser that returns to the supplying farms. 01 · Farms & millsPress mud · cattle dungCrop residue · market waste~250 TPD intake (design) 02 · WeighbridgeEvery tonne weighedPaid to bank accountFeed yard · pre-treatment 03 · CSTR digesters 17,017 m³ · 9 agitatorsHRT 20–35 daysMesophilic, mixed feed 04 · Gas purification96% CH₄ (±1) designMeets IS 16087:2025Two-stage H₂S removal 05 · Compression10 TPD CBG (design)Cascade or pipelineMetered at gate 06 · GAILBioCNG offtakeCGD / CNG networkAdministered price 07 · Fertiliser lineDigestate separatedSolid + liquid organicTested before dispatch Fertiliser returns to the supplying farms — the loop closes where it started Digestate Gas ₹ gas revenue ₹ paid for residue ₹ fertiliser at fair rate Sold underGOBARdhan
Fig. 1 · Feedstock → gas → GAIL · digestate → fertiliser → farm
01
The loop in seven steps

What happens to a tonne of residue.

01
Feedstock arrives from the catchment

Press mud from sugar mills, cattle dung, crop residue and organic market waste — about 250 tonnes a day at design, in ratios that change with the season. Contracted before the digester is sized.

02
Weighed, then paid

Every load crosses the weighbridge; the farmer or mill is paid on weight, to a bank account. The weighbridge record is also the audit trail for the impact figures.

03
DigestionDesign

Continuously stirred tank reactors — 17,017 m³ in total, nine agitators — hold the mix for 20 to 35 days while microbes turn it into raw biogas and a nutrient-rich digestate.

04
PurificationDesign

Water scrubbing lifts methane to 96% (±1) with two-stage hydrogen-sulphide removal, meeting IS 16087:2025 — the Indian Standard every batch is tested against before dispatch.

05
Compression and sale to GAIL

Compressed to BioCNG — 10 tonnes a day at design — metered at the gate and sold to GAIL for the CGD and CNG network at the administered price under GOBARdhan.

06
Digestate becomes fertiliser

Separated into solid and liquid organic fertiliser, tested for nutrients and contaminants, and dispatched — the second product, treated with the same seriousness as the gas.

07
Back to the supplying farms

Fertiliser returns to the fields the residue came from, at a fair rate. The farmer is supplier and customer; value stays in the catchment. That retained share is the metric we publish.

02
Where the money moves

Three cash flows, one loop.

IN
Gas revenue from GAIL

BioCNG sold at the administered price — ₹2,110 per MMBTU under GOBARdhan, with a minimum ten-year horizon. This is the flow that makes the plant bankable.

OUT
Payments to farmers and mills

Residue bought by weight, paid to bank accounts. Priced so that supply keeps arriving — the plant's raw material is a farmer's decision every season.

IN
Fertiliser revenue

Solid and liquid organic fertiliser sold back to the catchment and beyond, competing on cost-per-outcome. Digestate is a product line here, not a disposal cost.

Value Retention Ratio
TARGET
60%

of gross feedstock value taken from the catchment returns to it — through residue payments, fertiliser and local employment. Published with first-cycle reporting and marked as a target until then.

Method
Value returned to the sourcing catchment as a share of gross feedstock value taken out of it.

The loop is the investment case.

Three models run this same loop at different scales and risk profiles.

Investment models The 2026 CBG policy The research plant