SETM Smelter Off gas Mgt - Environment

Key Result Areas/Accountabilities

Supporting Actions

1. Planning

• Planning for necessary changes in view of recent legislations to drastically reduce emissions and discharge as follows:
  1. Ensuring installation of evaporator and crystaliser towards decreasing RO reject to zero liquid discharge within February 2020, as per verdict of SC, through treatment in ETP/WTP
  2. Ensuring installation of crystaliser for significantly reducing semi solid disposed as SLF to the stipulated 4 MT.

1. Operational Excellence

• Supervising the utilities section for
  1. Generation and supply of budgeted plant water, soft water, demineralized water for consumption at the plant as well the colony through the operation and maintece of the WTP, ETP, RO Plant and proposed ZLD plant.
  2. Sewage treatment and discharge as per specifications the operation of the STP

1. Budgetary Controls

• Conducting surveys and weekly meetings with the energy cell, environment cell and respective HODs to discuss energy saving avenues.
• Decreasing expenses incurred on WTP/ETP operations.
• Decreasing expenses incurred on purchase of water by measuring output, input and leakage of water through water meter and recycling the same to reduce water consumption.
• Ensuring recycling of cooling tower water
• Ensuring elimination of penalties for excess or short daily consumption of LNG through optimum nomination for daily gas supply by the ETPWTP section

1. Compliance

• Getting the unit audited every year by the external environmental auditor for both PCB and Ministry of Environment and file an Environment Statement by 30 th September each year declaring emission levels, consumption of raw material and water
• Obtaining environmental approvals, and ensuring continuous compliance of the Forest Conservation Act 1980 through liaison with the Ministry of Environment and Forest at Delhi and their regional office at Bhopal as well as the Forest Department office at Bharuch.
• Restricting emissions within permissible limits by monitoring and calculation of gaseous emission, quality of process water, waste matter and waste water through the Environment Lab.
• Ensuring monitoring and monthly calibration by independent agencies of environment and pollution control equipment attached with the process.
• Ensuring statutory compliance with respect to Air Act 1981, Water Act 1974, Hazardous and other Waste Rules amended in 2016, Environmental Protection Act 1986, Noise Rule 2005, Waste Electrical and Electronic Rule 2009, Solid Waste Management Act 2001, Plastic Waste Management Rule 2008 for different processes involved in the operations.
• Ensuring statutory compliance with respect to Biomedical Waste Rule 2001 amended in 2017 for the Health Care Centre

Getting the unit audited every year by the external environmental auditor for both PCB and Ministry of Environment and file an Environment Statement by 30 th September each year declaring emission levels, consumption of raw material and water

1. Customercentricity

• Facilitating monthly process audit by independent agency for process optimization, change of equipment and resolution of cross functional operational problem related to pollution control.
• Liaising with Central Ground Water Authority Board to obtain contracted water for the plant and the colony
• Networking with other industries within the Dahej SEZ and the Dahej Industrial Association to forge common solutions for operational issues.
• Liaising with Central Pollution control Board, New Delhi and its regional office at Baroda as well as the Gujarat Pollution Control Board offices at Gandhinagar and Bharuch to restrict operational roadblocks
• Providing operational departments with specifications for Capex for additional equipment.

1. Sustainability and Process Improvement

• Ensuring data collection, compilation and management in software as per corporate requirement of all key functions ie, environment, wash pledge and occupational health.
• Conducting monthly meeting with all functional managers
• Analysis of data and deduction of specific sustainability parameters such as energy, water, solid waste, Green House Gas emissions and sending monthly report to corporate
• Partnering creation and maintece of Green Belt

1. People development and engagement

• Monitoring and improving performance of team members
• Ensuring that WTP/ETP/RO teams are trained through specialised agencies and nominated for training at IITs to understand best practices
• Ensuring environmental training for operations team and engineers
• Ensuring regular inhouse training on air, water, environment laws and pollution control devices.