Emission Control and Monitoring of Gases during Waste Handling/Treatment
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Agenda
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Please log into the webinar 15 – 30 minutes before start time.
Thursday, March 10, 2022
9:00 am – 12:15 pm CST (incl. a 15-min break)
Presented by:
Subijoy Dutta, P.E.
William E. (Bill) Roper, PhD, PE
Agenda
Waste Categories – Municipal and Industrial
What is waste and why?
• Categorization of waste
• Regulatory background
Municipal Waste
Recognizing waste types
Source of waste
Types of waste
Industrial Waste
Waste characteristics
Visual observations
Climate Change and Health Impacts of Emissions during Waste Handling
Emission/migration points – general waste management steps
• Staging and site preparation
• Pre-treatment
• Treatment
• Post-treatment
Climate Change – Findings and Observations
European Commission (EC)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Gases and their potential (EC)
Comparison of global surface temperature changes and solar irradiation since 1880
Minimizing Global Warming and Related Disasters –
Monitoring and Control of Emissions
Point source emissions vs. non-point sources (power plant vs. burning MSW)
Monitoring technologies
• Traditional lab, field, visual
• Remote sensing – high resolution sensors for environmental applications
Control technologies
Brief Overview of Waste Treatment Process – with a Focus on Emissions
*Brief Overview of the General Process
Site assessments and investigations
Site characterization
Development and screening of alternatives
Remedial design/remedial action
Closure and post-closure care
Webinar Instructions
All attendees must log-on through their own email – attendees may not watch together if they wish to earn continuing education credit. HalfMoon Education Inc. must be able to prove attendance if either the attendee or HalfMoon Education Inc. is audited.
Certificates of completion can be downloaded in PDF form upon passing a short quiz. A link to the quiz will be sent to each qualifying attendee immediately after the webinar. The certificate can be downloaded from the Results page of the quiz upon scoring 80% or higher.
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Credits
Professional Engineers:
3.0 PDHs (No credit offered in NY)
Continuing Education Credit Information
Each webinar offers 3.0 PDHs to professional engineers licensed in all states except New York.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida (Provider No. 0004647), Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700) and North Carolina (S-0130). HalfMoon Education is not seeking course approval for professional engineers licensed in New York. Other states do not preapprove continuing education providers or courses.
Completion certificates will be awarded to participants who complete this event, respond to prompts and earn a passing score (80%) on the quiz that follows the presentation (multiple attempts allowed).
Speakers
Subijoy Dutta, P.E.
Managing Director, S&M Engineering, LLCMr. Dutta is a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) who is fully engaged in water and environmental protection through his leadership in S&M Engineering, LLC (SNM), a Maryland Corporation. He worked as the lead engineer in a superfund site remediation project and various RCRA sites involving design and installation of landfill cover systems, planning and implementing exhumation of a radioactive waste site in a DoD facility. Mr. Dutta worked in developing regulations and guidance later at a national level while with the US EPA for 20 years. He designed an innovative well interception plan, based on the bathymetric profile of the seabed to successfully kill the 1.4m gal/day Deepwater Horizon oil spill (Macondo Well) in Aug 2010. Mr. Dutta most recent book Environmental Treatment Technologies for Municipal, Industrial and Medical Wastes, Remedial Scope and Efficacy, 2nd edition, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), was published in September 2021.
William E. (Bill) Roper PhD PE
Professor Roper is an adjunct professor with the College of Science at George Mason University and an expert in multiple technologies and methodologies that have engineering, environmental and public policy applications. He has spent a lifetime engaged in civil & environmental engineering and public policy. Dr. Roper has developed and led major R&D programs in areas such as dredging operations, wetlands, construction productivity, invasive species control, energy efficiency and geospatial technology. For many years, he has served as the director of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Worldwide Civil Works Research and Development Program as a Senior Executive Service (SES) official. Dr. Roper also served as director of the U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (TEC). His professional experience includes senior management positions in the U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Army, Arlington County Government, academia and the private sector. Additionally, Dr. Roper has been active with the Water Science and Technology Board, the Infrastructure and Constructed Environment Board, and the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Engineering.