Total Waste Management

(Bahía Blanca – Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
20002 – to date. TWM in Petrochemical Plant

Since 2002, we have managed all the waste generated by all this petrochemical plant’s operations in Bahía Blanca – Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Desler has 12 operators working at the plant on a permanent basis.

Operations that are performed:

• Treatment in situ through physiochemical stabilization of 200 tons of processed contaminated mud that are generated monthly and final deposition in secure IPES landfill. 
• Dehumidification through decanting 150 tons per month of mud from effluent plant that is contaminated with bleached hydrocarbon, subsequent blending in Desler and coprocessing in Minetti. 
• Dehumidification through vacuum rotation filter of 80 tons per month of mud from effluent plant that is contaminated with mercury, subsequent final deposition in secure IPES landfill.
• Microencapsulating and final deposition of 10 tons per month of mud that is highly contaminated by mercury.  1000 tons have already been treated.
• Internal management  of special and non special solid waste (relocation, classification, adapting for transportation).
• Managing special waste in transit.
• Transportation and treatment off-site at Desler and / or Ipes of the waste being managed.
• Managing unused metal substances (junk).
• Management of 37,000 Tons of historic mud, 3000 tons of nonspecified PVC, 2,200 tons of mud heavily contaminated by bleached hydrocarbon.