Treatment, recovery and disposal of industrial oily wastes

Client:

ANCAP

Location:

Montevideo, Uruguay

Status:

The works consist of the construction of an oily waste treatment plant for ANCAP at the La Teja refinery.

- Soil movement works were carried out (1200 m3) to form 5 pools for bacteriological treatments, which were waterproofed with a hydrocarbon-resistant PVC membrane (920 m2).
- An operating beach of 150 m2 in reinforced concrete is made to operate with the waste.
- The reinforced concrete works also include a sedimentation basin and a structure in each basin for the pumps.
- For the treatment of solid waste, waterproofed biopiles are constructed with high-density polypropylene.
- The electrical installation for the equipment includes an explosion risk area, for which 200m of buried reinforced cable is installed.