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Shah Alam Transfer Station or SATS is a solid waste transfer station located in Section 21,
Shah Alam Shah Alam (, from Persian language, Persian, meaning "king of the world") is a city and the state capital of Selangor, Malaysia which is situated within the Petaling District and a small portion of the neighbouring Klang District. Shah Alam rep ...
. The site can be accessed by Jalan Puchong via KESAS Highway and Persiaran Jubli Perak via Federal Highway. SATS and its transportation system is owned by the Ministry of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government (KPKT) throug
SWCorp
Worldwide Holdings Bhd throug
WHB Environment
was appointed as the maintenance operator (concessionaire) until May 2017. The current operator of SATS is Bumi Segar Indah Sdn Bhd (BSI). SATS costs in average RM800,000 a month to operate and send all waste compacted there to a sanitary landfill using special
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containers (silos) mounted on a
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trailers. Apart from SATS that was built at Shah Alam, there are four more such similar transfer stations in Malaysia which located at Taman Beringin in
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, Taruka at
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, and another two at Batu Maung and Ampang Jajar, both located in
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Purpose-Built

The transfer station is the integral part of
municipal solid waste Municipal solid waste (MSW), commonly known as trash or garbage in the American English, United States and rubbish in British English, Britain, is a List of waste types, waste type consisting of everyday items that are discarded by the public. ...
management system. It essentially function as transit waste collection center en route to the
landfill A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials. It is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of waste with daily, intermediate and final covers only began in the 1940s. In the past, waste was ...
facilities. The concept of the transfer station is based on the fact that when the final disposal site is remote from the collection area, it will be more cost effective to transport the waste in larger load vehicles (long haulage). SATS is built by WHB Environment on 10.55 acres land in the industrial zone of Section 21, shared the same road to a well known cemeteries managed by the local council at the same area in Section 21. SATS was originally purposes by the Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam (MBSA) or
Shah Alam City Council Shah Alam City Council (MBSA; ) is the city council for Shah Alam City, Malaysia, north of Petaling District and east of Klang District, and an agency under the Selangor state government. MBSA is responsible for public health, sanitation, ...
for its domestic waste management needs. But during the construction phase, the project ownership was transferred to KPKT after KPKT initially invested RM77 million to the project, allowing SATS to receive up to 1,200–1,900 ton of waste per day, not just from the MBSA but also has the capacity to take garbage from surrounding cities like
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City Council (MBPJ) and
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Municipal Council (MPSJ). Previously, contractors serving MBPJ and MPSJ could only manage one to two trips daily (to the landfill) before the transfer station was in operation. Trip to Jeram in Kuala Selangor was too far for the contractors to travel and a bit costly.


Design Concept

Compare to transfer station at Taman Beringin which use horizontal system, the design concept applied for SATS is a vertical compression system which the compactors are installed in level two of the transfer station building. The refuse collection truck will be directed to the tipping platform at level two and tip directly into the small hopper built over the silo. There are eight units of tipping bay or silo places provided in SATS supported by two units of mobile vertical compactors. Advantages of SATS are: # The system is considered a simpler, more efficient and more economical solution than the horizontal principle, mainly because of the need for fewer containers (silos), compactors and haulage trailers; # Lighter constructions, less maintenance of the equipment and less required space for building and infrastructure likewise contribute to minimize the investment and operational costs per ton of waste. # The transfer station can also serve as a collection point for recyclable materials and site for inspecting and sorting the hazardous waste materials.


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A video showing such concept (vertical system) in Penang.

CNNL Presentation
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