O co-processamento como destinação final dos resíduos Classe I Perigosos: estudo de caso da Fazenda Belém, Icapuí, Ceará

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Rogério César Pereira de
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Sousa, Haroldo Ferreira de, Pinheiro, José César Vieira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/5182
• topic: Gerenciamento de resíduos; Resíduos sólidos perigosos; Gestão ambiental

This research has as objective to study the solid wastes generated by the petroleum industry, with relevance to the final disposal alternatives of hazardous wastes, which were suggested taking into consideration the solid waste characteristics, the related law, the resulted environmental risk and the management practices. This study works as basis for implementing and managing the Solid Waste Management Program (SWMP) of the Belém Farm, located in Icapuí, Ceará. The Belém Farm make part of the active complex of Mossoró production, which is a Business and Exploitation Unit of the Rio Grande do Norte and Ceará States from the Brazilian Petroleum (PETROBRÁS). The methodology used consisted, besides a detailed bibliographic revision, of recording the solid waste of the farm, application of questionnaires, interviews with specialized workers, technical inspection in locus and the elaboration of a process-waste matrix. The solid waste inventory generated by the petroleum activities of the Belém Farm was based on qualitative and quantitative data gathered during a 12 months period, from September 2004 to August 2005, in which the Solid Waste Management Plan was set. The results showed that the main serious problems were related to the final destination of the Solid Waste Class I – Hazardous, particularly the greasy sludge waste and contaminated soil with petroleum and/or derivatives, that by not having aggregated commercial value were managed without any control. The final disposal alternative that was the most adequate for dealing with solid waste of the petroleum industry as the co-processing due to attend the requirements of the current environmental law and present advantage from the economic, technical, environmental, health and labor safety (operational).