Vietnam Innovation Day Application Form
“Environmental Action”
I. PROJECT IDENTIFICATION
1. Project Title: ENHANCING COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN MANAGEMENT OF POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENY (PCB) CONTAINED SOLID WASTE BY ADOPTING ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS IN ORDER TO MINIMIZE ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION.
2. Location of Project:
+ Institute of Industrial Chemistry – Cau Dien ward, Tay Mo District, Hanoi
+ Van Dao Co., Ltd., #1Phuong street, Phung Chau ward, Chuong My district, northern province of Ha Tay
3. Geography: The project is implemented in both urban and rural areas.
4. Implementing agency/individual:
* Research & Development Department – Institute of Industrial Chemistry (IIC)
This department is established base on the foundation of Additives Petroleum products Research centre, which separated since 2003. Functions and duties of the department are to research and implement projects in field of science technology.
* Centre of Environment and Chemical Safety (CECS) under ICC was founded in 1994. Its functions and duties are: research and develop activities, services in fields of science and environment technology.
* Van Dao Co., Ltd. This company was set up in 1997. Their main business activities include: urban environment and industrial zone treatment; consignee agent; selling and purchasing petroleum, materials, electricity devices, metal, chemicals, waste material, lubricating oil,….
* The total number of staff for this project is 40 including:
- Collecting group: Will collect waste lubricating oil, transformers, capacitors, transformers’ oil, categorizing and producing products to cover the commercial cost and development.
1. Section of environment and chemical safety – Centre of Environment Conservation and Safety Chemical (CECS):
- Disseminating about the environment laws
- Holding classes on environment protection in order to raise awareness of each individual, organization and community in environment protection.
- Compiling curriculums, providing information relating to toxic waste aiming at proposing solutions to diminish pollution.
- Projects that have been carried out successfully:
+ Participating in the Project on Controlling toxic Waste of Vietnam funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB)
+ Participating in the establishment of project on Controlling industrial waste of Viet Tri and Scheme Design of Industrial Waster management zone in Tram Than, Viet Tri city, Phu Tho province
+ Taking part in JICA project on master plan off industrial waste water, particularly in field of chemical industry.
+ Constructing the electroplate waste water treatment system at Thang Long Metallic Co.,
+ Constructing waste water treatment containing oil at Ha Lao engine – repair plant, Yen Bai province.
+ Constructing the waste water treatment in Ha Noi engine-repair plant
+ Constructing waste water treatment at Hanoi railroad car plant
+Participating in the project on training about cleaner production, health safety and toxic waste management.
+ Training on toxics and environmental toxics in the frameworks of international projects in Vietnam.
2. Section of Technology Study: Dept of research and development
Implementing the experiment in labs and applying the receivable result into the pilot project then carry out in the practical production.
- Participating into the project - VIE/86/034 “Improvement of the efficiency of lubrication oil usage in Vietnam” funded by UNDP/UNIDO.
- Taking part in the ministerial-level project “Study on producing oil from waste lubricating oil to make up lubricating oil”
- Carrying out ministerial-level project on “Recycling waste lubricating oil by combination measure”
- Implementing the project under KC.02 programme “Science Study and new material technology development” title “Study to produce corroded inhibit system aiming at protecting the inside surface of steel pipe that transfer acid, NƯỚC VỈA in exploiting oil-gas ”
Diagram of the project management apparatus:
Target of the project group:
- Raising awareness of PCB production business communities, then enhancing their participation into the management of toxic waste in general and PCB in particular via useful solutions (in economic and environment)
- Ameliorating to diminish the PCB pollution in Vietnam, controlling solid waste containing PCB in Vietnam
5. Contact information:
Institute of Industrial Chemistry - Ministry of Industry (MOI)
Address: #2 Pham Ngu Lao Street, Hanoi
Telephone: 04 – 8253930 Fax: 04 - 8257383
Name of person(s) responsible for project:
Dinh Van Kha - Master of chemical technology
Title: Head of department of Research & Development - ICC
Telephone: 04 – 7658256 - 0904190608
Email:
+ Having taken part in 16 science works at ministerial and national level
+ Participated in 10 other science technology works
+ Having obtained prizes in environment; awarded certificate of merit in
the Fifth National technical Initiatives Contest
+ Currently is implementing project “Process of used lubricating oil
treatment technology which is environmental friendly measure in Vietnam ” funded by UNIDO.
6. Banking information:
Account Name: Dinh Van Kha
Account Number: 540E 01200
Name of financial institution: Sai Gon Commercial and Technical Bank
Address of financial institution: 11A Doan Tran Nghiep street, Hai Ba Trung district, Hanoi
Account type: VND
II. PROJECT DESCRIPTION
2.1.The necessity of the project
Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) compound has been used in industrial activities since 1930. PCB is used to produce hydraulic liquid, anti-fire fighter additives, additives of printing ink and insulated liquid inside electric devices such as transformers or capacitors. Since PCB is discovered, developed countries have produced PCB and consider them as all-purpose compound for hydraulic and insulated liquid.
Not until early of 1960s of the 20th century did scientists discovered the toxicity of PCB. They realized that PCB is very dangerous as it is a very sustainable compound, can exist in land, water, air environment for long time; can agglomerate bio chemical in agriculture products, plants, adipose tissue of human and animals. The first two cases were poisoned with PCB happened in Yusho – Japan and Yucheng – Taiwan in 1968 and 1979 respectively that cause hundreds of people died and thousands of people seriously affected. According to the communication of World Health Organization (WHO), PCB can cause cancer. If someone is acutely poisoned with PCB at high rate can have their skin burnt, skin structure changed, liver function and immune system changed; affecting their respiratory system, having nervous breakdown; hysterical, hurting liver,
Cardiovascular, lung, chromosome change, having premature births, abortion, monstrosity…. Or if someone is poisoned with PCB at a very tiny rate, it still can destroy his/her health such as: gene change, reproductive disorder or cause dangerous disease including cancer, monstrosity, and affect towards the environment as well as the living ecology. The most perilous compounds that people have ever known: dioxin and dibenzofuran are contained in PCB heat disintegration. Recently, Environment programme on Chemical of United Nations (UN) has arranged furan and PCB into 12 toxic compound list that UN forbid all countries to use under any circumstances. Participants of Stockholm convention including Vietnam have committed to fully reject furan and PCB in production activity by the year 2025.
In Vietnam, the safety management of toxic chemical is quite new as residents are not highly aware of protecting health. In addition, high pressure of development demand lead residents to import and use polluted compounds including PCB without being controlled in a long time. PCB was imported into Vietnam mainly in form of additives or component of insulated liquid, hydraulic liquid and some other materials. A great deal of transformer oil and hydraulic oil has been imported into Vietnam during the war and development stage. From 1940 in the previous century, Vietnam imported approximately of 27,000 – 30,000 tones of PCB from Russia, China and Romania. According to the statistic of Department of Environment Protection (under Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment), until now most of the cities, provinces nation wide have conserved a great deal of transformer oil containing PCB with an estimated volume of 5,000 – 6,000 tones. According to the statistic, in Ho Chi Minh City alone, Water supply Co., still contains over 20,000 liters of transformer oil contaminating with PCB and over 5,000 litres Rtemp oil with PCB (about 30 tones) that need to be treated. The treatment of 30 tones of oil containing PCB has become a very pressing issue for water sector and Department of Natural resources and environment (DONRE) of Ho Chi Minh City. This is an alarming number of preservation situation of toxic chemical and potential pollution risk of PCB compound towards the environment, ecology system and public health in Vietnam. From the statistic analysis of the author about PCB content in Hanoi, Quang Tri, Bac Ninh and Ho Chi Minh city land from the year 1992 to 2002, we discovered PCB compound in all land sample. It proves that PCB contamination is occurring in Vietnam and the pollution rate is increasing year by year. PCB content in land sample collected from big cities is higher than rural areas. Therefore, chemical and harmful materials closely relate to big cities as there have many industrial activities, development of power network will need more transformers which will lead to pollution. Thus, chemical and perilous materials used during the production process in big cities, the development of power network that need more transformers have made the PCB pollution increased clearly. In the province, we see the low rate of pollution, however it tends to rise time by time.
In general, PCB is really deleterious and harmful, however hardly anyone knows about it except for some experts. In many places, residents freely sell and purchase transformers, capacitors that contain transformer oil and waste transformer oil contaminated with PCB. In some areas, residents even use transformer oil to produce lubricating oil or hydraulic oil, or other type of material for different burning purposes. Right in this place, PCB is widely spread that leading to pollution risk as it can’t be controlled.
Vietnam Government has issued Regulation 155/CP about the management of toxic waste of which they mention about the allowed limitation for used PCB (≤50 ppm). But the supervision of wastes containing PCB has not been cared strictly. There are two main reasons that make PCB management in Vietnam is not effective:
- Residents’ awareness of the danger of PCB pollution is not really high. Waste releasers are individual or organization, who use or own sources contaminating PCB such as transformer oil with PCB, hydraulic liquid, devices contracted with PCB. Due to insufficient understanding of the danger of PCB or because of benefits, many people still sell, buy, exchange or use these materials.
- The solid waste collection and treatment system contained PCB in Vietnam was not fully equipped with modern technical and technology devices.
2.2. Target of the project
The project “Enhancing the community participation into the solid waste contaminating polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) management by adopting economic encouragement measures with the aim to diminish environment pollution” in order to strengthen the effective management of dangerous chemical PCB.
- Raising community awareness in PCB controlling and attract more and more community participation into this activity. Project group wish that via the implementation of this project, residents will understand and aware of the peril of PCB waste; avoiding critical results caused. Also via this activity, it will ring the bell of real PCB pollution situation, which is happening in Vietnam, and indifferent attitude of community towards this issue. Then, we will directly contact with offices, units that store or use materials contained PCB; gradually raise residents’ awareness of controlling PCB toxic waste. At the moment, Vietnam hasn’t had concrete methods to control POP disintegration harmful waste yet as they are just on the paper. The success of this project is the most effective solution to bring PCB management into community life!
- Applying suitable PCB treatment technology in a wide range scale to absolutely settle PCB issue.
Currently the project group has successfully studied the new PCB treatment technology in insulated and hydraulic liquid from the electric devices and the hydraulic system with PCB in the lab and is in the stage of completing this technology in industrial scope. The treatment of these PCB during this stage is called chemical process. PCB will be transformed into normal organic compound by chemical reaction. These chemicals will not be toxic, and PCB is discarded in form of inorganic salt and polymer-typed compounds. Below is the simple diagram to describe the treatment process:
The technology used in the project is very flexible. It doesn’t cost much to buy equipment, can operate comfortably, and is absolutely safe for electric devices, which are in serving period. In this process, harmful solid waste with PCB will be treated and transformed into normal solid waste without PCB. Insulated and hydraulic liquid after being disintegrated with PCB, can be applied during recycling process in order to re-use them with the aim to save oil natural sources and strengthen economic efficiency.
2.3. Specific content
- Widely propagandizing about the harm of PCB via mass media such as newspaper, broadcasting stations, television stations…
- Holding classes, seminars for enterprises about the danger of PCB solid waste towards living environment and encouraging PCB releasers to participate in the programme to control and manage PCB waste by collecting and selling waste with PCB to the processing workshop of the project.
- The project will be in accordance with units, which are now conserve and use materials containing PCB, to provide collection method, conservation or categorization of materials contaminating PCB to protect environment.
- Treating PCB in pilot area by adopting technology in order to assure for the effectiveness of the project (both economic and environment issues).
- Verifying the efficiency of PCB treatment by using project technology via arbitrator method.
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2.4. The creativeness of the project:
This project is aim to provide new measure in controlling PCB effectively such as: