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Room: EN
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Lectures: Monday 12:30 - 1:45 p.m., Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Office hours: Monday 1:30 - 2:30 p.m., Tuesday 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Term Paper due dates: 24 May, 21 June and 19 July
Presentation due dates: 24 May, 21 June and 19 July
Remediation Engineering: Design Concepts, 1997
S. S. Suthersan, CRC Press
Hazardous waste Management, 1994
M. D. LaGrega, P. L. Buckingham and J. C. Evans, McGraw Hill
Hazardous Waste Site Soil Remediation, 1993
D. J. Wilson and A. N. Clarke, Marcel Dekker
Managing Contaminated Sites: Problem Diagnosis and Development of Site Restoration, 1996
D. K. Asante-Duah, Wiley
Principles of Contaminant Transport in Soils, 1992
R. N. Yong, A. M. O. Mohamed, and B. P. Warkentin, Elsevier
Geological Aspects of Hazardous Waste Management, 1994
S. M. Tests, CRC Press
Fundamnetals of Soil Behavior, 2nd Ed., 1993
J. K. Mitchell, Wiley
Soil Chemistry, 2nd Ed., 1985
H. L. Bohn, B. L. McNeal, and G. A O'Connor,D. K. Asante-Duah, Wiley
Chemistry; Experiment and Theory, 2nd Ed., 1985
B. G. Segal, Wiley
Marking Scheme
Outline of Topics
1. Overview of remediation, management approaches, types of methodologies
2. Contaminant characteristics, interactions with soil, contaminant migration, nonaqueous phase liquids
3. Field investigative techniques
4. Brownfield redevelopment, incentives, advantages, examples
5. Containment using vertical barrier walls, bottom barries, covers, use of geosynthetics
6. Surface water controls, structures and channels
7. Groundwater controls, wells and piezometers
8. Bioremediation for soil and groundwater, in situ, ex situ and on site techniques, method selection
9. Natural monitored attenuation, advantages and limitations
10. Stabilization and solidifcation
11. Thermal desorption
12. Incineration
13. Soil fracturing
14. Groundwater treatment and reinjection
15. Nuclear waste management
The location of the Writing Centre is the Science Building, SN 2053
and the telephone numbers are 3168 and 7705.