One aspect of reducing the anthropogenic footprint on the environment is the implementation of comprehensive measures that are applied during the cycle of acceptance, storage and transportation of bulk cargo to sea vessels and include:
Taman bulk cargo terminal
Dust screen-wall. Installed along the entire perimeter of coal warehouses. Parameters are determined on the basis of computer modelling. The height of the wall reaches 25 m, the total area of the screen is 130 000 m2 . The screen-wall effectively suppresses the process of dust creation and transfer, which allows to reduce the dust level outside the perimeter of the warehouses up to 80%.
Automated stationary units (water guns). The coal warehouses are equipped with water guns, which create a water fog over the surface of the tiers with the stored product. There are 72 sprinkler guns at 4 coal warehouses.
The loading telescopic arm on the shiploader booms. A telescopic arm equipped with a swivel tray is provided for ship loading to reduce dusting
Dust suppression system with water mist. It is installed for unloading railroad cars with the help of wagon tipplers, as well as bottom unloading.
Flow breakers. Metal hoppers in railroad car unloading stations (coal/ore, sulfur) are covered at the top with protective metal grills, which are equipped with flow breakers (baffles), which prevent dust from escaping from the hoppers into the room when the hopper is full.
Aspiration system. It performs dust collection in the railroad car unloading stations. The amount of air removed from the hoppers is 180 thousand cubic meters per hour. Purification quality of 99.9%.
Taman transshipment complex for oil, oil products and LPG
Hermetic transshipment of oil products. Through all stages: from wagon unloading to transshipment of oil products and LPG into vessel holds, automated redundant systems monitor the condition of the equipment. This makes it possible to achieve a high level of reliability, prevent possible malfunctions and mitigate environmental impact in an emergency.
Modern technologies of oil products storage. The oil product base of the complex consists of 31 tanks for storage of fuel oil, light oil products VGO, etc. Tanks are made by one of two technologies: “double wall” or with a concrete containment bund lining. Both technologies ensure reliable retention of the entire volume of the product in the tank without escaping into the environment.
Water area protection. At the berths of the oil, oil products and LPG transshipment, boom containment is used to reliably protect the water area from any threat of oil product spills from the vessels or in other emergencies.
Remote location of oil products and LPG storage complex. The Black Sea is Taman’s wealth and pride. That is the reason why OTEKO has located oil product and LPG storage at a distance of 1.5 km or more from the water’s edge. This prevents the oil products in storage from entering the water area, which means that anthropogenic risks are dramatically reduced.
Компенсационные мероприятия
Reproduction of aquatic bio resources. As a responsible natural resource user, OTEKO complies with legal requirements in terms of environmental conservation and compensation for the impact of economic activities. The Company cooperates with fish farms to reproduce the fish population in Krasnodar Region. Over 72 million rubles has already been spent by the company on release into the wild of young Russian sturgeon, bighead sturgeon, white amur and other fish species.
Compensation for environmental impact. The Company pays compensation regularly and in full for anthropogenic environmental impact. At the same time, data from many years of soil, air, and seawater monitoring conducted by independent, state-accredited laboratories confirm that there are no exceedances of MPCs for harmful substance emissions at OTEKO’s facilities.
Separate collection and recycling of waste. The introduction of the system of separate collection of production and consumption waste and the use of special containers in production and household premises allowed the company to provide “second life” to useful waste — metal, plastic, cardboard, paper.
The introduction of separate waste collection has become one of the steps to reduce and minimize the burden on the environment and has allowed the company to reduce the volume of waste sent to landfills, significantly save money spent on the removal of solid municipal waste, reduce the payments for negative environmental impact, and develop production culture and respect for the environment.