Infrastructure
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Combined, the Group owns several sites, facilities, and offices distributed in different parts of the country where we maintain on-going contracts. We also offer our specialized transport fleet. Our infrastructure can be summarized as follows:
The URBASER-KIASA Group’s headquarter office is located at 0180-0160 Alcalde Guzman Street, comuna de Quilicura. Executive Offices and Administration The executive offices for the URBASER-KIASA Group include: Direction, General Management, Planning, Human Resources, Finance, Information Technologies (IT), Procurement, Industrial Services, etc. Base of Operations At our Base of Operations, we have the following offices: Human Resources Management and External Relations, Operations, Fleet Control, Risk Management, Quality Control, Training, First Aid (on-site EMD), Social Assistant and Welfare. This site also has the Telecommunication Center, working with a network of GPS transponders to monitor our fleet of vehicles, each equipped with radio communications. Paved parking yard for the Fleet This parking yard currently accommodates about 230 trucks used in the Greater Santiago metro service area. The yard was designed and built to house up to 400 trucks. Main Mechanical Shop The Mechanical Shop has five administrative offices. Besides this Main facility, there are six other shops strategically placed around the country. The Main Shop is distributed among the following areas: Paint, Electronics, Electricity, Hydraulics, Vulcanization, Welding, and Machine and Tooling Shops. In addition, the Main Shop has eight working stations, four with inspection and centralized lubrication /used oils drains bays. It may accommodate up to fifteen trucks simultaneously. The Main Shop crew works 24 hours a day in three shifts. Quality controls are performed daily by two on-site fleet inspectors. Washing Plant The plant was built to wash trucks and containers used in the service of the Greater Santiago metro area customers. Keeping the fleet clean is part of our agreements with municipalities and a sound business practice. A second washing plant is located in La Pintana facility. The personnel works in three shifts around the clock. It may service up to 130 trucks and 70 containers a day. The washing time for trucks is 15 minutes. Containers can be done in 5 minutes. The main plant can service two trucks simultaneously. Plant’s maintenance is performed on a daily basis. Main Warehouse This facility stores an array of different materials, ranging from spare parts, lubricants, industrial-strength cleaning products, etc. This warehouse provides materials to the Santiago metro area and other regions as well. It has a built area of about 1,000 sq meters. There are eleven other warehouses throughout the country. The Main Warehouse includes the following working stations:
We also operate a mail and delivery truck operation that travels to all the facilities in the country. This operation works non-stop, 24 /7. See photos of Headquartes on our PHOTO GALLERY.
The QTS is located in the intersection of Route 5 North and Americo Vespucio. The Station operates on a 5,800 sq. meters of built facilities where we daily receive, load, and dispatch more than 5,500 tons of residential solid waste. The waste materials received by the Quilicura Transfer Station come from 24 municipalities around the Greater Santiago Metro area. The Station processes more than 850 truck-loads of waste materials non-stop, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The loads are received, weighted, inspected and compacted for later to be sent to the Loma Los Colorados Sanitary Landfill (LLCSL) via freight train.
A freight train is dispatched to the Loma Los Colorados Sanitary Landfill 8 to 10 times a day, carrying 25 to 26 wagons. Each wagon carries a container with up to 28 tons of compacted solid residential waste. A railway system of this nature not only increments the efficiency of transport but it contributes to the decontamination of the Greater Santiago metro area as well. The freight train replaces more than 400 truck loads that would be necessary to move an equal amount of cargo to the final disposal destination at the Loma Los Colorados in Til Til.
BIOGAS CAPTURE AND BURNING SYSTEM
The biogas generated at the Loma Los Colorados Landfill is captured and burnt through a collection network of pipes inserted amid the waste on the landfill and then sent to a thermo-degradation plant where the biogas is burnt. The project will demand an investment of U$110 million between 2007 and 2012. Its objective is to reduce the emission of green house gases and take advantage of biogas as fuel. As part of the “Clean Development” mechanism, the purpose of the system is to destroy methane gas – one of the green-house gases present in the biogas-. The system started operation in March of 2007. There are 120 perforated wells into the waste mass to date. The wells are between 12 and 49 meters deep (36 and 147 feet) connected to a 15 km. (9.4 miles) capture network of pipes. As of January 2008, the thermo-degradation plant has burnt more than 25 million cubic meters of biogas. The project will continuously monitor the flow of biogas to the burners thermo degraded in quality, temperature, and pressure. In addition, it will have a remote alert system to control methane and oxygen levels. The plant currently has two chimney /torches with a burning capacity of 5,000 cubic meters/ hr. Its safety and operative components will assure an uninterrupted service. The plant emission of gases such as PM, CO, COV, CxHy, and NOx among others released are monitored quarterly. Equipment Description Standard Set Chimney Burner Kit Starter Kit (pilot) Monitoring the Flame Temperature Control Flame Control System Sampling Ports Insulation Blowers Separator Capture Network More images of Biogas Capture and Burning System on our PHOTO GALLERY.
LIXIVIATED LIQUIDS TREATMENT POOL
INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT (ISWM)
KDM S.A. developed the center from basic engineering to the environmental impact study, and the construction of it. In its operation we use the latest tools available: chippers, waste compactors, a sixty ton scale -that includes specific weight software-, front loaders, sweepers, and a variety of specialty trucks (dump trucks, crane loader trucks, and amplirolls, among others).
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The URBASER-KIASA Group’s quality of services are supported by the use of advanced technologies and high standards of operation. We offer these resources to our customers through an extensive infrastructure network and a specialized fleet.
The Quilicura Transfer Station (QTS) is the largest of its type in South America. The Station operation complies with the highest international technical and management requirements of the industry and it is ISO 9000 certified.
Through an alliance with Ferrocarriles del Pacífico in 2003, KDM S.A. implemented a modern waste transport system. It travels from the Quilicura Transfer Station to the Loma Los Colorados Sanitary Landfill in Til Til.
The URBASER-KIASA Group owns and operates two sanitary landfills, one in the Metropolitan Region and a second in the IX Region. Through its subsidiary RESAM, it operates tow additional landfills on the VII Region. The combined disposing capacity of these landfills is close to 7,000 tons a day.
The Biogas burning project started by KDM S.A. in its facilities at the Loma Los Colorados is located in Til Til. The initiative reduces the emission of green house gases (GHG) considerably since it destroys a high proportion of discharged methane (CH4). The system has a 50% biogas capture efficiency ratio.
KDM S.A. manages the CODELCO Industrial Solid Waste Management Center (ISWMC), El Teniente Division, VI Region (150 km. south of Santiago).