Transfer Station and Transportation: Types of Transfer Station and Technologies

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Transfer Station

  • The centralized facility found between the collection site and disposal site
  • An intermediate station as large vehicles are unloaded and re-loaded from smaller collection vehicles in these sites

Types of Transfer Station

  • Small transfer stations: behold waste up to 100 tonnes per day
  • Medium transfer station: have capacity of about 100 to 500 tonnes per day
  • Large transfer station: these stations have site for segregation, component separation size and volume reduction

Transfer Station Technologies

  • Open top transfer trailers
  • Surge pit
  • Stationary compactors
  • Precompactor system
  • Balers
  • Intermodal container system

Transportation

The collection vehicles are used for transportation of waste materials from one place to another place

Classified into different types based on their size, and compaction

Small Scale Collection and Muscle Powered Vehicles

  • Used in rural and hilly terrain.
  • Example- rickshaw, bullock carts and tricycles.

Non Compactor Trucks

  • More efficient and affordable.
  • Utilized in small cities.

Compactor Trucks

  • Has compaction system to hydraulically compact the waste.
  • The capacity of these vehicles ranges between 12 - 15m3.

Specialized Collection Vehicle

  • Standard packer trucks
  • Closed body recycling trucks
  • Mobile container system
  • Modified flatbed trucks
  • Open bin recycling truck

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which transfer station has site for segregation, volume reduction and component separation?

  1. Small transfer stations
  2. Medium transfer station
  3. Large transfer station
  4. Both a and b

Answer: c

2. Which among the following is a type of transfer station technology?

  1. Surge pit
  2. Stationary compactors
  3. Precompactor system
  4. All of the above

Answer: d

3. Rickshaw, bullock cart and tricycle are

  1. Small scale collection and muscle powered vehicles
  2. Non compactor trucks
  3. Compactor trucks
  4. Specialized collection vehicle

Answer: a

4. Which among the following has highest capacity volume?

  1. Small scale collection and muscle powered vehicles
  2. Non compactor trucks
  3. Compactor trucks
  4. Specialized collection vehicle

Answer: d

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