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18-Env-B5 Industrial & Hazardous Waste Management: December 2016

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  1. Question 1 Factors Governing Choice of Industrial Wastewater Treatment Process(es)
  2. Question 2 TOD, COD, BOD u and BOD 5 — General Relationship (Bar Graph)
  3. Question 3 Ultimate Goal of an Industrial In-Plant Waste Survey
  4. Question 4 Components of an In-Plant Waste Survey
  5. Question 5 Purpose of Sampling
  6. Question 6 Factors Affecting Survey Results
  7. Question 7 Grab Samples vs. Composite Samples — When to Use Each
  8. Question 8 Circumstances for Selecting Chemical Treatment Technology
  9. Question 9 Circumstances for Using Flow Equalization
  10. Question 10 Municipal Control of Industrial Wastewaters
  11. Question 11 Hazardous vs. Industrial Wastewater — Differentiation and Treatment Strategy
  12. Question 12 Management Strategy for Waste Pharmaceutical Products
  13. Question 13 Determining Waste Generation Rates and Characteristics for a Pre-Construction Industry
  14. Question 14 Managing Liquid Radioactive Wastes
  15. Question 15 Bio-Inhibitory Compound in an Otherwise Biologically-Treatable Waste
  16. Question 16 Managing Biomedical Wastes — Liquid vs. Solid
  17. Question 17 Hazardous to What/Whom? — Six Industries, Their Hazards and Management Strategies
  18. Question 18 Industrial Wastewater Characteristics (50th/90th Percentile) — Significance and WWTP Design Approach
  19. Question 19 Information Required From a New Pharmaceutical Industry's Discharge Application

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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; Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes (1989); Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) regulations on radioactive waste; provincial hazardous waste regulations (e.g. BC's Environmental Management Act and Hazardous Waste Regulation).