Gestão de resíduos químicos em laboratório universitário. Estudo de caso: Laboratório de Engenharia Sanitária, Faculdade de Engenharia UERJ.

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Patrizzia Cappelletti
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/10960
• topic: Environmental Engineering; Chemical waste management; Laboratory; Universities; Engenharia Ambiental; Gerenciamento de resíduos químicos; Laboratório; Universidades; CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS

Along the human history, universities have had a fundamental role on the knowledge and technology generation to apply them to improve our society quality. In other hand, to provide these results, scientific research produces various kinds of wastes and toxic pollutants which are not disposed properly. The absence of waste management institutional policies in universities provides the pollution of effluent receiving bodies (water resources), deterioration of pipes and sewage systems, affect the efficiency of sewage treatment plants and also contributes to the generation of passives environmental in universities which the amount of chemical waste generated expects for appropriate treatment in precarious storage conditions. On this background, this paper aims to characterize and evaluate the Laboratory of Sanitary Engineering (SLE) chemical waste management located at State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). The applied metodology, used literature searches, and electronic documents, as well as interviews with management laboratory s waste responsible observation on site. This case study aimed to characterize and evaluate the procedures for chemical waste management of LES in order to propose improvements in such management. The study reveals that management of waste generated on this lab is performed inchoately. The used methods in all phases of management, from the generation of waste to dispose of them need to be improved to also improve the quality of environmental research and teaching laboratory. In addition to the absence of internal standardization norms and absence of the management process control, the lab also lacks the physical and financial structure to adequate the management process. Since this scenario diagnosed, it was possible to recognize the risks associated with chemical reagents characteristics summed the environmental conditions of the laboratory, more specifically, the constraints on site storage of waste. These risks have the nature of chemical, physical, toxicity and explosion hazards risks. Still on the characterization this scene, it was possible the recognition of non-compliance laws relevant to scenario. This paper conclusion is that, in general, universities need more investment in the theme of environmental management in an institutional way. The studied laboratory also does not escape this reality and dust that reason, also lacks financial investments, investments in training and investment in physical infrastructure in the laboratory for all these give support to the deployment of an effective waste management and consistent.