Development of O&M Diagnosis System for Safer and More Efficient Operation of Waste Disposal Facilities

Abstract

The accident occurrence rate at waste disposal facilities is high in comparison with that rate of other industrial facilities. For example, the rate of accidents per 1 million hour operation of waste disposal facilities is about 10 times higher than that rate of overall industries. Thus, lots of efforts were given to reduce the accidents at waste disposal facilities, in the past. Some of the efforts were changing the design of the facilities to increase the safety and some were updating the O&M manuals. Our study focuses on systematic approach to continuously develop the O&M level. We developed O&M diagnosis system which consists of selected internal third party inspection considering the past experience of each facilities (O&M, troubles, accidents and so on). In addition to the safety problem, most waste disposal facilities are facing the problem of shortage of the money. Especially, that problem is heavy for municipal wastes disposal facilities which are owned & operated by municipalities. Thus, waste disposal facilities have to be efficient and economical. We developed management system by using targeted value like performance index of the facility and targeted value management system is combined with O&M diagnosis system. We applied O&M diagnosis system including targeted value management system on Teshima waste treatment project and the effect is examined. The result of experiments will be shown in the paper.