DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS WASTES IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY INFRASTRUCTURE RENEWAL
Project no. 733 · Status: Kapanmış · 2016
Summary
Due to the obligation and controls of hazardous waste declaration brought by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization to universities and colleges, the hazardous wastes accumulated in the university departments should be stored in the intermediate storage for a maximum of 180 days and then delivered to a licensed hazardous waste transport company. The Ministry of Environment and Urbanization requires the declaration of hazardous wastes that have been transported between January and March of each year a year ago in order to eliminate hazardous wastes that arise in certain parts of the universities after factories and which need to be disposed of without harming the environment. In this way, it puts hazardous wastes under strict control and prevents hazardous wastes from being disposed of randomly into the trash or spilling into the sinks. Universities have serious financial sanctions when they fail to fulfill their duties. The aim of this project is to fulfill these duties of universities and to create and declare the necessary infrastructure and disposal of hazardous wastes in our department in accordance with the laws and regulations. It is essential that faculties and departments fulfill certain responsibilities in order to prevent the hazardous wastes generated in the university from harm to the environment and to take necessary steps to comply with the law. These responsibilities are, ? preventing the formation of hazardous chemical wastes at the source, if possible, ? minimizing the amount of waste formation ? evaluation of recovery / reuse options prior to disposal as waste. The wastes that are formed after all these operations and which need to be disposed of must be carried out by licensed vehicles in accordance with the characteristics of the waste and the regulations by the persons and organizations who have been licensed for transportation. Licensed transport companies are also obliged to forward hazardous wastes to the disposal facility which provides disposal services for such wastes. In order to fulfill these obligations, Licensed Transport Companies must be paid for the transportation of hazardous wastes to disposal facilities and for the disposal of hazardous wastes in disposal facilities. In the completed project, first of all, faculty members and assistants that producing hazardous waste in their research categorized and stored their waste. Subsequently, hazardous wastes were delivered to the vehicles of the licensed transportation company under the responsibility of the department. In addition to the transportation and disposal costs paid to the transport company, vehicles and equipment related to the occupational safety of the department personnel and other unpredictable, chemical and hazardous waste infrastructure systems were purchased during the transportation of the wastes to the vehicle and the disposal process was completed without any problem. In addition, the cooling tower experimental set-up, which is one of the oldest experimental set-up’s in the Chemical Engineering Department, was renewed with this project. With the new set-up, the experiments were carried out for two semesters with no problem and the process still continues.