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18-Env-B5 Industrial & Hazardous Waste Management: December 2014

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  1. Question 1 Why Do We Collect Data?
  2. Question 2 Why Use Statistics to Analyze Data?
  3. Question 3 What Does a Normal Probability Curve Show?
  4. Question 4 Define Standard Deviation
  5. Question 5 What Is Student's 't'?
  6. Question 6 Canadian Guidelines for Biomedical Waste Management
  7. Question 7 Managing Biomedical Waste — Liquid vs. Solid
  8. Question 8 Biggest Challenge in Biomedical Waste Management
  9. Question 9 Objectives, Uses and Steps of an Industrial Waste Survey
  10. Question 10 When to Use Equalization Basins
  11. Question 11 Selecting Aerobic, Anaerobic, Chemical or Physical Treatment
  12. Question 12 Substances Causing Toxicity in Biological Oxidation Systems
  13. Question 13 Strategies to Reduce Fish Toxicity From WWTP Effluents
  14. Question 14 Strategies to Reduce Industrial Liquid Waste Strength
  15. Question 15 Removal Strategies for Inorganic and Organic Dissolved Solids
  16. Question 16 Wastewater Management Strategy for a New Industry
  17. Question 17 Critical Issue in the Long-Term Management of Hazardous Compounds
  18. Question 18 Process Design Variables for Ten Waste Treatment Technologies
  19. Question 19 Footprint Estimate for a Hog-Waste Treatment Technology
  20. Question 20 Minimum and Maximum Oxygen Transfer to a Wastewater

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Reference texts: Nemerow & Dasgupta, Industrial and Hazardous Waste Treatment, 2nd ed.; Metcalf & Eddy, Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery, 5th ed.; Davis & Cornwell, Introduction to Environmental Engineering, 6th ed.; LaGrega, Buckingham & Evans, Hazardous Waste Management, 2nd ed.; CCME, Guidelines for the Management of Biomedical Waste in Canada (1992); Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), 1999; provincial Environmental Protection / Hazardous Waste Regulations (e.g. BC's Hazardous Waste Regulation, O.Reg. 347 in Ontario); Montgomery & Runger, Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers (for Q1–Q5's basic-statistics content).