To achieve full-process of industrial waste management and to monitor industrial waste flow from source to treatment or reuse facilities, EPA takes strategy of asking designated industries and vehicles to install RFID equipment and follow standard procedures.
By adopting RFID, EPA wants to provide convenience policies and prevent illegal dumpling for both industries and government area. RFID deepen waste management process. Information of people、events、time、locations and items are collected at once. Therefore, the management system not only increases correctness and availability, but also simplifies reporting and confirming process in manifest system thru automatically capturing and transferring data. Just like network taxation system, computer system actively provides firsthand information about event status and data are automatically validated and verified real-time and correctly
Manifest system holds information about 3 roles which are source、transportation and treatment, and information about waste. Though, with all the manually inputted information, the system still will not know whether wastes are treated as manifest recorded. Therefore, information about time、location and items are manually input , system are passively collect information and manually validated and verified.
RFID features automatically identified and read many items at once, in the process, it will be capable of clearly knowing about waste attribute and quantity. Furthermore, RFID enables to know real waste kinds, waste flows, waste weight, vehicle tracks, time, locations and coordinates, to create a real-time、long-distance monitoring system. RFID is most appropriate to massively stored waste due to insufficient treatment or high treatment cost.
To affirm manifest and real activity are the same in waste kind and attribute, quantity and weight and the same waste from source to treatment, and prevent from shortage, excessive or mistaken information, it’s the goal of current industrial waste management strategy. Namely, the program introduces Logistics management in waste management.
This report presents achievement and performance of EPA “implementation management and system monitoring integration EPA of clean vehicles equipped with GPS project”.
The program deliverables are selection of waste, main selection rules are from 2006 annual report of IWCC (2007/4/19 version , annual report in abbreviation). In selection of target industry process, target are divided into source、transportation and treatment , according to different needs to make different RFID application suggestions.
Thru selection process, there are six main waste which are Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) Dust、Industrial Water and Wastewater Treatment Sludge、Heavy Metal Contained Sludge、Waste Water、Inorganic Sludge and Paper Pulp Sludge.
In selection of transportation target process, main selected wastes are Contagious Medical Wastes、Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) Dust、Waste Water、Copper Contained Sludge、Inorganic Sludge and Paper Pulp Sludge.
Based on source and transportation selection processes, the first priority waste are Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) Dust、Sludge and Waste Water.
Based on the 3 industrial waste from selection process, and compare to stored quantity of main industries, furthermore, select target source industries for RFID pilot program.
The second main deliverables is cost-benefit analysis after applying RFID. Based on analysis report, feasible solution could be selected. Cost-benefit analysis are into four steps: define solution、cost analysis、benefit analysis and cost-benefit index evaluation.
Net Present Value (N.P.V. in short) is used for analyze relationship between cost and benefit. N.P.V. is benefit monetary value minus cost monetary value. When N.P.V. is greater than 0, it means benefit is greater than cost, therefore, the solution is more feasible. At last, break even point of the solution is calculated, and the year for introducing RFID is chosen. The methodology is based on the results of other sub-project of RFID program, and come out final result.
The third deliverables include: applying RFID to waste cases national and worldwide; evaluation of simplifying waste management process; adjustment of policies in new RFID process; monitoring and validation functions of RFID system and RFID promotion tasks. The “Applying RFID to Industrial Waste“ seminar were held in Taipei、Taichung and Kaohsiung.
RFID system contains three sub system: data collection sub-system、management information sub-system and interface for external systems. The management information sub-system contains inquiry functions、monitoring functions、GIS monitoring functions、validation and verification functions. The system is completed.
