Publication detail

Impact Assessment of Pollutants from Waste-related Operations as a Feature of Holistic Logistic Tool

NEVRLÝ, V. ŠOMPLÁK, R. GREGOR, J. PAVLAS, M. KLEMEŠ, J.

Original Title

Impact Assessment of Pollutants from Waste-related Operations as a Feature of Holistic Logistic Tool

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Waste management has still been a developing and progressing field, which demands continual improvements in waste transportation as well as proper selection of locations and technical operation of new treatment facilities. Most of research papers on waste management planning have been dealing with optimisation of network flows, thus minimising the cost and improving economic criteria. The shortest paths to treatment facilities are considered together with detailed analysis of their operation including heat and electricity demands in their vicinity. The tasks sometimes include social and global environmental criterions, however, the direct local consequences also play an important role and should be examined. A decision-making strategy in waste management updated with the local emission impact on the population is proposed in this paper. The paper focuses on the first move in analysing the production, dispersion, and impact of pollutants, originating in transport, with regards to the population living close to routes. The calculation of emission produced during the transport of waste takes into consideration the altitude profiles of routes, container loads, and specific types of vehicles. The consecutive estimated impact on the population reckons with the distances between routes and municipalities as well as their sizes in terms of the numbers of inhabitants, where the transportation routes are divided into smaller segments and dispersion is limited with threshold value. The proposed approach describing the emission effect has been tested using real-life operating data corresponding to the specific, 81 km long route along which approximately 25 t of waste is transported 800 times a year. The impact of pollutants on the population was evaluated and discussed. Results of the analysis were quantified for this route to create an edge characterisation needed for further calculations. This approach applied to the whole network then yields input data needed for future research of novel strategies in facility location problems. Other possible extensions of the presented approach include more accurate dispersion function or detailed calculation of the impact of pollutants with respect to specific locations of residential houses.

Keywords

Impact of pollutants; waste transportation; local environment assessment; network edge characterisation

Authors

NEVRLÝ, V.; ŠOMPLÁK, R.; GREGOR, J.; PAVLAS, M.; KLEMEŠ, J.

Released

15. 8. 2018

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd

Location

UK

ISBN

0301-4797

Periodical

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Year of study

220

Number

1

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages from

77

Pages to

86

Pages count

10

URL

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479718305164

BibTex

@article{BUT147205,
  author="Vlastimír {Nevrlý} and Radovan {Šomplák} and Jiří {Gregor} and Martin {Pavlas} and Jiří {Klemeš}",
  title="Impact Assessment of Pollutants from Waste-related Operations as a Feature of Holistic Logistic Tool",
  journal="JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT",
  year="2018",
  volume="220",
  number="1",
  pages="77--86",
  doi="10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.05.003",
  issn="0301-4797",
  url="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479718305164"
}