Abstract
At present, 265 national food waste recycling facilities have been operated by public facilities95 and private facilities 160. it has continuously installed a food waste treatment facility from1997. The government set up and implemented guidelines and inspection standards for theinstallation and operation of the facilities. However, unclear detailed examination items, designsand process standards for the installation procedures of the facilities are causing problems due tothe unskilled operation management system, decrease in efficiency and defects of a facility.This study conducted mail and site surveys on 95 public food waste recycling facilities that itsuggest the ways to operate facilities which minimize problems. At the result of investigation, apre-treatment facility was not installed 2 systems(2 inputting facilities) and hopper covers andfood was overloaded. also the transportation amount was excessive. In case of a main treatmentfacility, the secondary environmental pollution was caused by inexperienced operation and theefficiency of the facility was reduced due to excessive input of food. also the operationmanagement standards of the facilities were inappropriate. The odor and food waste leachatetreatment facility is investigated as problems that are unskilled operation, lack of regularinspection and inappropriate capacity of the treatment facility .Based on the problems found through the investigation, it suggested some ways of efficientoperation. this study might contribute to minimize mistakes and defects and improve theefficiency of install and operation course of food waste recycling facilities through finding.
Translated title of the contribution | Investigation on the operational state of the public food wastetreatment facilities and suggestions on their efficientoperational management |
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Original language | Korean |
Pages (from-to) | 47-56 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | 유기물자원화 |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2010 |