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

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  1. Question 1 What Are Hazardous Wastes?
  2. Question 2 Why Are We Concerned With Hazardous Wastes?
  3. Question 3 Hazardous Waste Sources by Sector
  4. Question 4 Three Pathways of Hazardous Waste Release
  5. Question 5 Four Components of a Hazardous Waste Management System
  6. Question 6 Unit Processes for Managing Hazardous Wastes
  7. Question 7 Six Key Strategies in Hazardous Waste Management
  8. Question 8 Greatest Challenge in Managing Industrial Wastewaters
  9. Question 9 Liquid Industrial Wastes — Definition and Examples
  10. Question 10 Municipal Control of Industrial Wastewater Services
  11. Question 11 Information Required From a New Pharmaceutical Industry Applicant
  12. Question 12 Five Factors Controlling the Aerobic Digestion Process
  13. Question 13 Biological Nitrification — Mechanism and Rate Control
  14. Question 14 Advising an Industry on the Most Cost-Effective Wastewater Management Option
  15. Question 15 Conducting an Industrial Waste Survey
  16. Question 16 Secure Landfill — Description and Cross-Section Sketch
  17. Question 17 Three Management Options for Landfill Leachate
  18. Question 18 Annual BOD5 Sewer Surcharge for an Industrial Discharge
  19. Question 19 Municipal vs. Industrial (Cannery) vs. Hazardous Wastewater — Comparison Table
  20. Question 20 Estimating Waste Generation and Flow Rates for a Pre-Construction Industry
  21. Question 21 Plug-Flow vs. Complete-Mix Process Selection
  22. Question 22 Three Most Important Factors in Treatment Process Design
  23. Question 23 Managing Biomedical Wastes — Liquid vs. Solid
  24. Question 24 Treatment and Ultimate Disposal of Liquid Radioactive Wastes

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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).