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Dear Gentlemen:
I have prepared a few lines that may give you an idea of our vision of future collaboration with our organization.
A major line of work on industrial waste management that we suggest for cooperation is development and implementation of regional and national programs for processing and recycling of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes of various amounts
It is suggested that concepts of industrial symbiosis and cleaner production be incorporated in the basic approach. This enables capitalization on the existence of various industries in one region.
1.The Dnieper region has such industries as mining, metals, chemical processing, engineering, building materials, food processing, agriculture etc. This is a favorable condition that allows maximum effectiveness of industrial symbiosis in utilization of many of the wastes generated here.
It is important to organize waste management so that it be carried out by the very companies that generate wastes. They must become interested in the issue, so that they process their wastes and ship them to other entities as semi-finished products or engineered raw materials of sufficient value. This is a key precondition enabling an organization to sell its wastes at a maximum profit.
2.The concept of cleaner production addresses an industrial process as such in a way enabling minimization of wastes. Thus a blast furnace or a chemical reactor becomes an object of improvement, rather than a new facility is added to it to process its wastes.
3.Waste processing per se using additional facilities makes sense only when the potential of industrial symbiosis and cleaner production is exhausted.
Enclosed is a tentative list of projects. Although iron and steel industry is of paramount importance for the region, no project in this field is included because the steel plants are mostly government-owned.
The proposals listed may be prepared in a format suggested by the Dutch party. We are prepared to expand the list and supply you with all information needed to start mutually beneficial cooperation between our organization and the Dutch party.
Sincerely yours,
Prof. W. Zadorsky, President
Pridneprovie Centre for Cleaner Production
TENTATIVE LIST OF JOINT PROJECTS
WITH PRIDNEPROVIE CENTRE FOR CLEANER PRODUCTION
1.Processing sunflower seed husks and used polymers to molded products for various applications including agriculture
| Wastes involved | Polluters/ processors |
Processes | Products | Markets | Environmental benefits |
| Sunflower seed husks | Oil extraction company. Private with foreign investments. | Comminution. Molding. | Fences. Boxes, packing. Building panels. |
Livestock farming. Food processing. Miscellaneous industries. Civil engineering. |
Elimination of fire hazard. Reduction of storage area. Substitution for wood and more expensive plastics. Improved health of livestock. |
| Used polymer film and other polymer wastes | Agricultural entities. Cooperative or private. | Collection. Transportation. Shredding. Molding. |
Scale: regional/national. |
2.Processing waste sludge to fertilizer, fodder and contaminant concentrate
| Waste activated sludge with excess amounts of heavy metals, nuclides and other contaminants. | Municipal/ industrial sewage treatment system. Municipal. |
Collection. Transportation. | Organic fertilizer. Microelement inorganic fertilizer
concentrate. High quality fodder. Contaminant concentrate (0.5% of alfalfa weight). |
The alfalfa farm. Livestock farms. Chemical processing
industry. Scale: regional/ |
Waste sludge recovery. Area release for non-dumping uses. Soil decontamination. Simplified processing and/or burial of hazardous substances. Increased soil productivity. |
| New alfalfa farm. Cooperative or private. | Spreading. Alfalfa harvesting. Delivery to fodder protein plant. |
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| Existing fodder protein plant. Private. | Processing alfalfa. Concentrating contaminants.(1) |
3.Processing beet chips to food/medicinal quality pectin
| Beet chips | Sugar mills. Privatized. | Processing diffusion beet-chips. | Pectin. | Food processing. Pharmacy. SCALE: national/ international |
Elimination of water pollution. Improved human health via prevention and rehabilitation(2). |
4.Processing boiler/incinerator ash to more coal, valuable metals, and cenospheres
| Fly ash. Slag. |
Steam power plant. Privatized. Incineration plant. Municipal. |
Dry dust collection. Slag collection. |
Recovered residual coal. Cenospheres. Concentrates of
germanium and other metals. Aluminum. Silica. |
The steam power plant. Building materials industry. Cement production. Steel industry. Aluminum smelting. Nonferrous metal industry. SCALE: local/ |
Fuel conservation. Dumping area release for other uses. Air and subterranean water pollution abatement. Raw material conservation. |
| New company. Private. | Ash/slag processing(3). |
NOTES. (1) The process was successfully tested in Chernobyl area and in Florida (USA). (2) Pectin is indispensable to humans because it helps remove toxic substances via the alimentary canal. An average of 2 to 4 grams is recommended daily. The process at hand was met favorably in Great Britain. Current price of food quality and medicinal quality pectin is about $18 and $50 per 1 kg respectively. (3) Metals are to be recovered via processes offered by a Canadian company (a business plan is available) and those implemented in Ukraine. Residual coal and cenosphere extraction and recovery of germanium is already carried out in Donets region. The management of a pilot project could be performed with a view to commercializing the comprehensive methodology in East, Central and possibly West Europe. Another option is to use the residue of coal recovery for non-cement road beds, airfields etc. via technology offered by one US company.
William M. Zadorsky
SPECIAL EXPERIENCE
IN CHEMICAL PROCESSING AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
| Field of Expertise | Systems approach. Upgrading chemical processes and
apparatuses. Flexible systems for chemical processing. Mass transfer. Capillary and porous systems. Pollution prevention and cleaner production. Sustainable industrial development. Waste management. Industrial symbioses. Life cycle assessment. |
| Developed R&D Programs | Developed national R&D programs funded by the USSR Ministry for Chemical Industry in 1975-1989, and by the Ukrainian Government since 1991. |
| Organized Department and Laboratory | Set up and headed Department of Chemical Processing and Environment Protection Technologies and a 150-force Laboratory of Chemical Reactors and Mass Transfer Apparatuses at the University of Chemical Engineering. |
| Organized Environment-Related Bodies | President, Pridneprovie Cleaner Production Center. President, Pridneprovie Ecological Foundation. Chairman, Dnipropetrovsk Region Center for Environmental Education. |
| Conference Organizer | Organized and chaired NATO ARW on Conversion and Environment in 1997 and 5 other international events on environmental issues, and 3 national scientific conferences on Intensification of Chemical Processes and Apparatuses. |
| Journal Editor-in-Chief | Initiated and now edits a nation-wide monthly titled Constructive Ecology and Business. |
| Community Board Member | Member, Environment Committee, Dnipropetrovsk City Council. |
| Personal Contacts | Personally acquainted with many decision makers and leading researchers in the NIS, Europe and Israel. Visited many environment protection agencies and laboratories in the Eastern hemisphere. |
| Publications | Published 4 books, over 250 journal papers. Made presentations at many national and international conferences. |
| Reports | Prepared reports on environmental situation in Ukraine for EuroMediaPressedienst, Germany. |
| Patents | Patents of Germany, France and Japan. 270 Certificates of Inventions of USSR. |
| Lecturer and Scientific Supervisor | Professor, Department of Chemical Processing and Environmental Protection Equipment, State University of Chemical Engineering. Supervised 20 successful Ph.D. theses. |
| Scientific Societies | Ukrainian Academy of Environmental
Sciences. International Academy of Computer Science and Systems. |
| Distinctions | Man of the Year 1997, American
Biographical Institute, Raleigh, NC, USA. Man of Achievements 1995, Cambridge International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK. |
| Awards | 16 diplomas and medals of national and international exhibitions. |
| Education | Dr. Sci. in Processes and
Apparatuses of Chemical Plants at Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Engineering in 1984. Ph.D. in Technology at Kazan Institute of Chemical Engineering in 1970. Master's Degree in Process Engineering of Basic Organic Synthesis and Synthetic Rubber Production at Karaganda Polytechnic Institute in 1964, with distinction. Master's Degree in Machines and Apparatuses of Chemical Plants at Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Chemical Engineering in 1961, with distinction |
| Business Address | Pridneprovie Ecological Foundation P.O. Box 4159, Dnipropetrovsk, 30 Ukraine Tel:: + 380 56 778 0648 Fax: +380 56 244 7668 E-mail: zadorsky@hotmail.com |
| Home Address | Ul. Komsomolskaya 41-43/23 Dnipropetrovsk 320070, Ukraine Phone: +380-562-44-0210 |
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