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Tackling the Industrial Integrated Hazardous Waste
Waste Challenge Handling and Treatment Facility
in North Batinah
The prerequisite for setting up a robust Industrial waste is categorised as hazardous if
industrial waste management infrastructure is it causes or poses a threat to a person or the This facility will consist of an incineration plant, a This facility is designed to treat oil and
to look at the immediate challenges at hand environment due to its physical, chemical or physical and chemical treatment unit, a solidification chemical waste. The project’s timeline has
and incorporate solutions based on future biological nature and mostly constitutes oil, unit, 3 types of landfills to cater to different been envisaged in a way that the operations
projections while considering the economical and chemical substances as well as compounds requirements, and pre-treatment and storage units. are rolled out in a phased manner.
environmental effects as well as human health. listed as hazardous by the government.
Industrial waste is defined as any waste
resulting from an industrial process.
This includes waste generated in the oil and
gas sector, from manufacturing processes and
from energy/power and water production Hazardous Waste Handling
activities etc. The waste stream can be
either hazardous or non-hazardous. Facility in Duqm:
Together with the Special Economic Zone The facility also includes a storage and handling area
Authority of Duqm (SEZAD), be’ah has finished for industrial organic waste destined for incineration
work on a hazardous waste landfill as well as and industrial waste needing further treatment
a storage facility in Duqm. before landfill disposal. The facility began operations
in mid-2019.
The waste handling facility is designed for both,
municipal and industrial waste. The landfill can accept Studies are also under way to assess the
inorganic industrial waste with the highest values requirements in Dhofar and of the oil fields to find
defined in the landfill acceptance criteria. a sustainable solution for the waste generated.
Industrial Waste Infrastructure
be’ah, having partnered with leading sustainability - An Integrated Hazardous Waste Handling
and environment bodies across the world, and Treatment Facility in North Batinah. Current Status of the Integrated Hazardous Waste
remains in a continuous state of research and Handling and Treatment Facility
up gradation. Like its policies, be’ah’s hazardous - A hazardous waste handlin facility
waste management infrastructure is designed and landfill in Duqm.
and implemented in a manner that keeps the
population’s and the environment’s best interests 500,000 m 3 400,000 m 3 400,000 m 3
ahead. At the core of every solution is sustainability.
be’ah is implementing sustainable solutions Engineered Engineered Engineered Storage areas Solidification plant
for treating industrial hazardous waste. landfill landfill landfill
The strategy involves establishing:
For non leaching For moderate Secure landfill for Operational Ongoing as
waste leaching waste waste with high per plan
leaching potential
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