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50%
of industrial wastes still require complex treatments, with physic-chemical
depuration techniques showing remarkable inefficiency. Most of times they
are processed around incineration processes, with high energy consumption
and not welcome by the public in many regions.
ENVIREDOX
pretends to show the technical feasibility of a process of assimilation
of industrial wastes to urban treatment by means of the application of
electrolytic combustion techniques, and with clearly identified potential
benefits and savings on:
- Investments
(about 25%).
- Water
and reactive consumption.
- Energy
(50-75%)
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Are
technical specifications the sole reason for the successful implementation
of a technology?
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In
ENVIREDOX, waste limits and regulations, as well as social dynamics, condition
the solutions to be implemented, foretelling that any alternative must
take into consideration policies of administrations and social agents,
and the economic/industrial situation of the selected area.
The
requirements of the solution are strongly dependent on non-technical factors.
Effective TT must integrate technological, economic, organisational and
social factors in the steering of the implementation and in the agreement
of the indicators to be reached.
| The
integration of technical and non-technical issues
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The
integration of technical and non-technical issues will
be achieved by means of Forums that will include all the relevant agents
participating in the decision-making process of accepting waste conditions
acceptance and promotion of common infraestructures for the treatment
of residuals:
- technicians
from the companies,
- managerial
federations,
- technical
centers,
- municipalities,
- social
agents.
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non-technical criteria influence technical developments? |
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Mostly
at a local level, the forums will steer the advances in developments and
applications. The final implementation will, therefore, be specific to
the circumstances of each region and to the criteria considered as relevant
by the forums.
The
forums methodology and the ENVIREDOX technology will meet the requirements
of the 98/61/CE Directive (Integrated Pollution Process and Control),
as well as the concept of BAT (Best Available Technology), geographically
dependent and agreed in its waste levels.
| Objectives
and expected achievements |
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ENVIREDOX
will:
- Implement
a technical solution to avoid effectively incineration of some industrial
wastes, making them compatible with urban treatment.
- Show
how technology transfer and implementation is encouraged by the co-operative
work of social, political, industrial and technical actors.
- Develop
a methodology for the participation of different agents in the enviromental
decision–making, folowing the indications of the IPPC Directive.
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