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Aluva: A company here claims to have found an economically and environmentally viable solution to answer to the crying need for crematoriums.
High Tech Seals Private Limited, which also produces automotive parts, plans to introduce a mobile crematorium fuelled by liquid petroleum gas (LPG) on the outskirts of Kochi.
"Controversies associated with cremation or burial rites and the issue of pollution made us think about such a crematorium," said John Thomas, the managing director of the company.
The company proposes to mount the crematorium on a vehicle. The project did not take off as smoothly when it was initiated two years ago.
"We started work on the mobile crematorium but encountered some technical problems," Thomas recalls.
The company, however, has been successful with its non-mobile LPG crematoriums, having successfully installed 10 units in various municipalities in the state.
"The vehicle on which the crematorium is mounted has to be around 30-feet long. It is next to impossible to move around with such a big vehicle on our roads. We are trying to bring down the size of the whole unit," said Thomas.
Pollution safeguard
"The cremation chamber though is only 9-feet long and looks more like a whole body scanner," he says. "The design has the approval of the State Pollution Control Board."
"We have done a lot of research on the design with the help from the Cochin University of Science and Technology, and are positive about starting production by the end of 2008 or in 2009," he said. "The use of LPG for cremation is economical. It needs only 10 kg LPG to cremate a body and takes less than 40 minutes. The cost comes to just about Rs500 (Dh46.5)."
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