Akshaya Patra and BW LPG India Collaborate in Puri

At The Akshaya Patra Foundation, each and every healthy meal served is a step towards enabling schooling and development a more fit, brighter long term for youngsters. Our adventure in Puri, Odisha, has taken a significant soar against sustainability thru a valued partnership with BW LPG India, India’s greatest proprietor and operator of Very Large Gas Carriers (VLGCs) for liquefied petroleum gasoline (LPG) delivery. The corporate is dedicated to ship cleaner power for a sustainable long term and proudly helps linked neighborhood tasks.

BW LPG India fuels Akshaya Patra’s Puri kitchen with blank LPG for a greener long term

Background

Puri isn’t just a pilgrimage hub; this can be a town that balances deep-rooted non secular importance with fashionable environmental awareness. Known for the respected Jagannath Temple, town has additionally embraced eco-friendly tasks—making it a great position for sustainable inventions in neighborhood provider.

Akshaya Patra in Puri

In Puri, Akshaya Patra started its operations in 2006 pushed through the imaginative and prescient No kid might be disadvantaged of schooling on account of starvation. Today, the Puri kitchen supplies nutritious mid-day foods to almost 40,000 youngsters learning in 583 authorities and government-aided colleges within the town and surrounding spaces, through supporting the PM POSHAN Abhiyaan, our foods play a pivotal function in bettering youngsters’s well being, faculty attendance, and studying results.

The centralised kitchen supplies hygienic, nutritious and freshly ready mid-day foods day by day, enjoying a very important function in bettering faculty enrolment, attendance and retention in addition to youngsters’s well being results, and in consequence, their educational efficiency.

Akshaya Patra – BW LPG India Partnership

Akshaya Patra has initiated a strategic shift against changing into extra environmentally sustainable, and on this, the Foundation has had the substantial fortify of donors like BW LPG India, who’ve supported its operations in Puri, Odisha. In line with Akshaya Patra’s sustainability dedication, the Puri Centralised Kitchen, which prepares over 52,000 foods day by day, transitioned from a briquette-fired boiler to a liquefied petroleum gasoline (LPG)-fired boiler with the fortify of BW LPG India. This transfer no longer most effective optimised operations but additionally introduced important environmental, neighborhood and cost-related advantages. BW LPG India management staff provides, “We are committed to the communities in which we operate, and we are proud to continue our partnership with Akshaya Patra Foundation to sponsor the energy needs of school kitchens with clean-burning LPG-fuelled equipment, reinforcing our firm conviction in delivering energy for a better world”.

Mr. Dhananjay Ganjoo, Chief Marketing Officer of The Akshaya Patra Foundation, shared, “At Akshaya Patra, we believe that true service must go hand-in-hand with sustainability. Our collaboration with BW LPG India is a shining example of how thoughtful innovation can nourish both people and the planet. By reducing our environmental footprint while enhancing meal delivery for children, we are building a healthier future—one meal, one initiative at a time.”

Impact – Energy Transition at Akshaya Patra Puri Kitchen: Briquettes to LPG-fired Boiler

Before – Challenges with Briquette-fired Boiler

1. High Fuel Load, Lower Efficiency

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  Daily Briquette Usage: 1,650 kg

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  Calorific Value: ~3,800 kcal/kg → 6.27 million kcal/day

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  Combustion Efficiency: ~65%, resulting in thermal losses and better enter gas wishes

2. Particulate Matter & Pollution

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  Briquettes emit prime ranges of PM2.5, soot and CO, resulting in deficient air high quality throughout the kitchen and surrounding house

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  Persistent neighborhood proceedings and air pollution board issues because of black smoke and ash

3. Manpower & Maintenance Overheads

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  Manual gas feeding, slag removing, and cleansing required further labour and led to widespread boiler downtime

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  Ash dealing with created hygiene problems close to meals processing zones

4. Operational Cost

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  Cost/kg: Rs. 8.50 → Daily Cost: Rs. 14,025

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  Requires massive dry garage and dealing with spaces for 1.6 tonnes/day

After – Benefits of LPG-fired Boiler Upgrade

1. Higher Thermal Efficiency

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  LPG Calorific Value: ~11,500 kcal/kg

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  To meet 6.27 million kcal/day, most effective 545 kg LPG/day is needed

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  Combustion Efficiency: ~95%, offering sooner and cleaner steam technology

2. Clean combustion, Air Quality & Hygiene Improvement

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  LPG combustion emits virtually 0 particulate topic, soot or ash.

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  Drastically decreased kitchen emissions enhanced air high quality for kitchen group of workers and the area people

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  Compliance to the Government’s laws of decreasing air air pollution as Puri is a spot of significance from the pilgrimage and tourism views

3. Manpower Savings & Easy Operation

4. Low Capex & Minimal Maintenance

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  LPG methods are modular and skid-mounted, requiring decrease in advance funding

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  No transferring grates, conveyors, or soot blowers—upkeep prices dropped considerably

Carbon Footprint Reduction (235 Operational Days)

Net Carbon Emissions Reduction

Comparison b/w Briquettes and LPG from an Operational Perspective

This transition marks greater than a technological development—this can be a style for scalable, CSR-led environmental innovation that improves operations, empowers communities, and complements the well-being of faculty youngsters.

Together with BW LPG India, Akshaya Patra reaffirms its project to serve nutritious foods whilst championing sustainability, neighborhood well being, and nationwide building targets.