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

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  1. Question 1 Definitions
  2. Question 2 Assessing Compatibility of Industrial Wastewater With a Municipal Activated-Sludge Plant
  3. Question 3 Causes of Toxicity in Biological Oxidation Systems
  4. Question 4 Canadian Guidelines for Biomedical Waste Management
  5. Question 5 Facilities That Generate Biomedical Waste
  6. Question 6 Industrial Waste Survey
  7. Question 7 COD and TOC of an Ethylene Glycol Wastewater
  8. Question 8 Basis for Selecting a Wastewater Treatment Process
  9. Question 9 Purpose of Equalization
  10. Question 10 Removing Metals From Industrial Wastewater
  11. Question 11 Industries Favouring Anaerobic Biological Treatment
  12. Question 12 Plug-Flow vs. Complete-Mix Biological Systems
  13. Question 13 Establishing Waste Generation Rates for an Unbuilt Industry
  14. Question 14 Off-Site Hazardous Waste Disposal Options
  15. Question 15 Components of a Hazardous Waste Management Plan
  16. Question 16 Managing Biomedical Wastes — Liquid vs. Solid
  17. Question 17 Industrial vs. Hazardous Wastewater — Differences and Management Strategies
  18. Question 18 Developing Information to Treat a Landfill Leachate

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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).

All eighteen questions are compulsory on this paper and are answered in full below.