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18-Env-B5 Industrial & Hazardous Waste Management: May 2018

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  1. Question 1 Ontario Hazardous Waste Regulations
  2. Question 2 Four Characteristics That Make a Waste Hazardous
  3. Question 3 Hazardous-Waste Determination by Characteristic
  4. Question 4 Processes for Removing Volatile Organics from Soil
  5. Question 5 Why Chemoheterotrophic Bacteria Dominate Bioremediation
  6. Question 6 Soil Vapor Extraction versus Bioventing
  7. Question 7 Importance of the Vegetative Support Layer in a Landfill Cover
  8. Question 8 Tests to Evaluate Hazardous-Waste Stabilization/Solidification
  9. Question 9 Incinerator Destruction/Removal Efficiency and Particulate Compliance
  10. Question 10 Mixed Waste Density, Dry-Basis Arsenic, and TCLP Toxicity
  11. Question 11 Recycled Bioreactor — Hydraulic and Sludge Retention Time
  12. Question 12 Packed-Tower Air Stripping Height for Chloroform
  13. Question 13 Maximum Batch Size for a Heat-Rate-Limited Incinerator
  14. Question 14 Vacuum Extraction Candidacy from Octanol-Water Partition Coefficients

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Reference texts: LaGrega, Buckingham & Evans, Hazardous Waste Management, 2nd ed.; 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.; Cooper & Alley, Air Pollution Control: A Design Approach; CCME, Guidelines for the Management of Biomedical Waste in Canada (1992); Ontario Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. E.19 and O. Reg. 347 (Waste Management – General); Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992 (Canada) and Regulations; Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), 1999.