Alternativas para el manejo de olores ofensivos generados en el taller de ediciones de la dirección territorial Bogotá del Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística-DANE

Abstract

In the Bogotá territorial directorate of the National Administrative Department of Statistics-DANE, the edition workshop is located, an area in which they print formats, brochures and other material necessary to comply with the statistical mission of the public entity, however, the substances that they are used mainly in the printing activity, as are inks and solvents, they emit odoriferous molecules that generate discomfort and negative effects on the health of the servers and collaborators of the territory; this problem has required greater operational and logistical efforts to make the collection and correct final disposal of such waste classified as RESPEL. Within the framework of the above, this work was proposed as a research phase in which management alternatives were identified to deal with odor pollution, for which the operating process of the edition workshop was initially recognized in order to locate the source of generation of offensive odors, later it was determined which of the substances used in this area have the potential to emit odoriferous molecules and, finally, preventive management alternatives were established, which includes all actions aimed at fostering good organizational and operational practices, and control management alternatives, covering technologies that can be implemented to reduce or eliminate offensive odors. It was concluded that the source of generation of offensive odors is the wastewater from machine washing and its prolonged storage under anaerobic conditions, also, that the substances with the greatest potential to emit odoriferous molecules are the inks and solvents, due to the large amount of organic compounds that they contain (and that later they become volatile organic compounds), and finally, it was concluded that before considering the alternatives of management of control it is fundamental to implement the alternatives of preventive management because these indeed attack the origin of the problem.