Babcock will soon join the league of global institutions to replace butane with methane bio gas as cooking fuel. This is as the University puts finishing touches on the biogas project. Already, construction work for the first phase is at advanced level. According to the Associate Vice President for Works and Physical Planning, Prof. Ezekiel Adeniran, this project will be one of the biggest energy savers and wealth creation strategies for the University. “We will connect pipes to drain out waste water from the over 140 sewage tanks on the main cam-pus to the project site,” he said. The bio digester project is 95% complete. The next phase of the project will entail the collection of the waste from the student hostel and channeled to the bio digester. 

He said the bio digester will help to break down the waste. The effluence will be used as fertilizer while the gas will be used as cooking gas. “The overflow we have will be further subjected to treatment and clean water which comes out will be used for irrigation purposes and the rest allowed to flow out to the canals” he added. The food produced from the fertilizer will be used in the kitchen. The food waste from the kitchen is put back in the bio digester thus creating a self-sustaining cycle. Prof Adeniran believes the project holds several advantages as well as opportunities for re-search: from Agriculture to Botany. “Another advantage is that we will stop polluting our ground water. It’s a way of protecting our ground water,” he re-marked. Similarly, we will also stop evacuating waste weekly from the sewage tanks in the student hostel area. We will save the cost which comes down to about N2million weekly from the student hostel area alone as well as create a cleaner environment. Now that we have connected the MRI project, any waste coming from there will be channeled into the bio digester.