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Wastewater treatment at industrial zones in Vietnam
| Project title: | Preliminary studies on wastewater treatment at industrial zones in Vietnam |
| Project leader: | Prof. Dr. Dr. Karl-Ulrich Rudolph |
| Co-operation partner: | Vietnam Institute of Industrial Chemistry (VIIC) |
| Sponsor: | BMBF - International Bureau |
| Reference number: | VNM 07/004 |
| Project term: | November 2007 - September 2009 |
Vietnam is one of the priority co-operation countries of the German Ministry of Research (BMBF) in the field of water
and sanitation. For more than ten years, there have been existing intensive contacts for scientific collaboration.
In Vietnam there are 162 registered industrial zones (IZ). For them there are 28 sewage plants,
whose construction level and operating status are mostly in need of improvement. Because of economic growth, the environmental
damages, which are serious already today, are increasing rapidly. According to government decision, this problem has
to be solved with "highest priority" and with the target to reach a connection rate of 70 % to properly working
sewage plants until 2010.
The responsible Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) has visited industrial zones world-wide together with other ministries in order to find technologies and solution concepts suitable to transfer to Vietnam. The industrial sewage plant for the ChemiePark AG Bitterfeld, Germany, (based on a technology development promoted at that time by the BMFT and finished in 1994) has been selected by the MOIT as a most suitable orientation example, whereupon an adaptation of technology and solution concept to Vietnam will be necessary.
The Vietnam Institute of Industrial Chemistry (VIIC) of the MOIT was asked to commence with preliminary works regarding the realisation of at first 3 to 5 pilot projects ("flag- ship projects") in collaboration with IEEM as senior expert of the sewage plant in Bitterfeld.
In Vietnam there are 162 registered industrial zones (IZ). For them there are 28 sewage plants,
whose construction level and operating status are mostly in need of improvement. Because of economic growth, the environmental
damages, which are serious already today, are increasing rapidly. According to government decision, this problem has
to be solved with "highest priority" and with the target to reach a connection rate of 70 % to properly working
sewage plants until 2010.The responsible Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) has visited industrial zones world-wide together with other ministries in order to find technologies and solution concepts suitable to transfer to Vietnam. The industrial sewage plant for the ChemiePark AG Bitterfeld, Germany, (based on a technology development promoted at that time by the BMFT and finished in 1994) has been selected by the MOIT as a most suitable orientation example, whereupon an adaptation of technology and solution concept to Vietnam will be necessary.
The Vietnam Institute of Industrial Chemistry (VIIC) of the MOIT was asked to commence with preliminary works regarding the realisation of at first 3 to 5 pilot projects ("flag- ship projects") in collaboration with IEEM as senior expert of the sewage plant in Bitterfeld.
Work schedule of the preliminary study
| 1. | Status quo description of the industrial zones (IZ) in Vietnam (Economic meaning of the IZ for the economy, environmental damages and risks especially by sewage, arrangement, completion and verification of the most important information and sewage data, based on extensive documents and preliminary works of the VIIC and others) |
| 2. | Demand profile for sewage plants in the IZ: |
| a) Oriented on the valid environmental legislation in Vietnam | |
| b) Oriented on international instructions | |
| c) In compliance with financial limits (at the moment: Dong/m³ 7,000 to 10,000) | |
| 3. | Requirements for a sustained sewage plant company: |
| a) Sewage-technically (requirement profile for sewage plants in IZ) | |
| b) Institutionally (type of company, e. g. PPP for the sewage plant, national infrastructure company or the like) | |
| c) On the operational level (necessary training measures, calculation reserve for sequence expenses, step program for sludge disposal and waste disposal) | |
| d) Financing models | |
| 4. | Prioritization of 3 to 5 suitable first projects |
| 5. | Exemplary prefeasibility consideration for the most suitable location: |
| a) Scientific basis | |
| b) Exemplary technology concept | |
| c) Pre-business concept (clutch-wise cost estimation and financing perspective) | |
| 6. | Supporting measures for economic use (Among others, high importance comes up to the tender strategy regarding adequate evaluation of quality and environmentally acceptable technology. The similar applies to the financing structure by the project development and the technologies to be used. Setting the points in the run-up determines, whether sustainable and environmentally acceptable high-class technologies can be used or not.) |
| 7. | Work schedule for further realization phases |
| 8. | Documentation (With perspective transferability consideration on BRIC states and anchor countries with similar problems regarding industrial zones) |
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