TRM
Analysis of technical and environmental characteristics of 3 possible sites for the siting of a WTE plant with attached waste pretreatment plant in the S-E area of the Province of Torino
year: 2002/2003
Activity commissioned by TRM S.p.A. to Politecnico di Torino.
The study dealt with the analysis and
characterisation of the territorial and environmental parameters of
three pre-selected sites. The study was meant as a decision support
tool for the identification of the most suitable area where to
micro-site and realise an urban waste treatment plant, provided with
an energy recovery system. The plant should have been provided also
with a pre-treatment section to process the wastes produced in the
South-East Development Area of Torino Province. This intervention
was prescribed in the “Programma Provinciale di Gestione dei
Rifiuti”.
The LAME research Group worked specifically on the risky areas
interference topic. It analysed the Major Hazard installations
comprised within a predetermined (by law) radius from the three
waste treatment plant potential sites. In particular the group
performed:
- the identification of the presence, nearby the new plant, of other plants that were classified according to the Major Hazard legislation;
- the acquisition and the analysis of the existing and available documents supporting the description of these plants, and in particular the “Notifiche” and the Safety reports;
- the identification and the evaluation based on the above mentioned documents of the impacts which may have arisen from emergency events in the nearby plants and which could have interfered with the new plants operations.
The activity required:
- the acquisition (from relevant bodies such as the Fire Brigades, Municipality, Region…) of the list of hazardous plants in the areas affected by the possible siting of the waste treatment new plant;
- the critical assessment of the documents;
- the definition of a Development Area;
- the mapping of accidental scenarios;
To evaluate the number and the incidence of these scenarios, a GIS tool was adopted with the proper local maps. The evaluation of the impacts and the mapping were performed in co-operation with the RAMS group in the Energy Department.