Date : 15th August 2020
Time : 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Venue : The IEM Miri Branch Office
BEM Approved Hours : 2 CPD hours
Speakers : Ir Tian Fung Wang
Online registration form : click here
Introduction
Technical Talk on
Scheduled Waste to Energy(SWtE) Projectis organised by The IEM Miri Branch.
Hazardous
Waste can be defined as waste with properties that make it dangerous or capable
of having a harmful effect on human health or the environment. Hazardous waste
is generated from various sources and may come in many forms, including
liquids, solids, gases and sludge. Hazardous Waste often contaminates ground
water. Hazardous Waste can be known as
Scheduled Waste in Malaysia because these wastes were differentiated and
categorized in the first Schedule of Environmental Quality (Scheduled Waste)
Regulations 2005.
Increase of
Scheduled Waste is a result of industrialization process. In general, Scheduled
Waste treatment can be categorized into several methods including Landfill,
Solidification, Incineration, Reduction and others depend on waste
characteristics or laboratory test result. The cost of treatment normally
related to its difficulty in treating the waste. Improper treatment may result
in environmental pollution which leads to irreversible health problem for
living creatures exposed.
With
reference to Environmental Quality (Scheduled Waste) Regulations 2005,
facilities that treating Scheduled Waste or performing Recovery process shall
obtain approval from Department of Environmental. Further to that, residues
from recovery of Scheduled Waste shall ONLY be disposed at Prescribed Premises
approved by Department of Environmental.
The objective of this talk is to provide some in sight view of Scheduled Waste Treatment method especially Scheduled Waste to Energy (SWtE) Project. Speaker wills also sharing his experience in developing a SWtE project from conceptual design up to Operation.
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