The project is located at the paper manufacturing unit of SIL at Ahmedgarh in Sangrur district in Punjab. It consists in the installation of a high rate upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) digester which captures methane and burns it for generating steam in boilers.

SIL’s paper manufacturing unit at Ahmedgarh has an annual installed capacity of 33,000 Metric Tonnes of paper per annum. Paper manufacturing, being a water intensive process,  produces large quantity of waste water with high percentage of chemical oxygen demand.