Improved generation of cadastres for indirect dischargers

In addi­tion to ful­fill­ing legal oblig­a­tions to com­ply with defined pro­tec­tion tar­gets, plant oper­a­tors increas­ing­ly appre­ci­ate oppor­tu­ni­ties that arise from main­tain­ing up-to-date and com­plete indi­rect dis­charg­er reg­is­ters. Among oth­er things, they can influ­ence the increase of oper­a­tional and occu­pa­tion­al safe­ty, the opti­miza­tion of oper­a­tions, dis­pos­al safe­ty and qual­i­ty, eco­nom­ic effi­cien­cy as well as fee sta­bil­i­ty and, in gen­er­al, the ser­vice for cus­tomers. Increas­ing­ly, the ques­tion of sus­tain­abil­i­ty is also becom­ing a focus of interest.

UNITECHNICS has devel­oped a web-based indi­rect dis­charg­er reg­is­ter (INDIKA). With this, oper­a­tors achieve above-aver­age response rates, opti­mize infor­ma­tion process­es and can work solu­tion-ori­ent­ed and effi­cient­ly with a dig­i­tal cadas­tre ver­sion. The fact is: what may have sound­ed like sci­ence fic­tion when the first e‑mail was sent in 1984 is now real­i­ty: our glob­al world is fast and dig­i­tal­ly networked.

Initial assessment

Since most of the indi­rect dis­charg­er reg­is­ters kept in ana­log form were rather incom­plete, it makes sense in many cas­es to start with an ini­tial assess­ment. In this process, poten­tial indi­rect dis­charg­ers are pre-cat­e­go­rized on the basis of a list of busi­ness­es and con­tact­ed by let­ter. With indi­vid­ual online access, the indi­rect dis­charg­ers then com­plete a ques­tion­naire on the dig­i­tal plat­form. Based on the answers giv­en, they can then be divid­ed into mon­i­tor­ing cat­e­gories. Accord­ing to the state of the art, plants that are high­ly wor­thy of mon­i­tor­ing should final­ly under­go a main assess­ment, which is also sup­port­ed by the company.

Continuous monitoring

Since an indi­rect dis­charg­er reg­is­ter does not rep­re­sent a snap­shot, the indi­rect dis­charg­er reg­is­ter offers pos­si­bil­i­ties for per­ma­nent mon­i­tor­ing. In addi­tion to the annu­al rec­on­cil­i­a­tion of new and old busi­ness entries and the gen­er­al re-query of data every two to five years, the oper­a­tor can use an action and doc­u­ment man­age­ment sys­tem to mon­i­tor his indi­rect dis­charg­ers in a par­tial­ly auto­mat­ed and uncom­pli­cat­ed man­ner. In most cas­es, this com­mu­ni­ca­tion takes place elec­tron­i­cal­ly, which can save both the indi­rect dis­charg­er and the oper­a­tor a lot of time and effort.