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In Green Remediation: Sustainable Environmental Practices for Remediation of Contaminated Sites, you'll learn ...
- Principles, strategies and best management practices (BMPs) for green remediation
- Regulatory criteria and standards for site remediation
- How to reduce fossil fuel consumption by optimizing treatment systems and using alternative energy
Overview
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Credit: 4 PDH
Length: 47 pages
The goal of site remediation is to restore contaminated sites to productive use, while keeping cleanup costs to a minimum. The practice of "green remediation" uses cleanup strategies that consider all environmental effects of remedy implementation for contaminated sites and incorporates options to maximize the net environmental benefit of cleanup actions and reduce project costs.
This course outlines the principles of green remediation and describes opportunities to reduce the footprint of cleanup activities throughout the life of a project. The BMPs outlined in this course help decision-makers, communities, and other stakeholders (such as project managers, field staff, and engineering contractors) identify new strategies in terms of sustainability. These strategies complement rather than replace the process used to select primary remedies that best meet site-specific cleanup goals. The course identifies the range of alternatives available to improve sustainability of cleanup activities and helps decision-makers balance the alternatives within existing regulatory frameworks.
This course is applicable to engineers involved with the investigation, design, construction, operation, and monitoring phases of site remediation regardless of the selected cleanup remedy.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify the core elements of green remediation.
- Explain regulatory requirements for cleanup measures.
- Describe site-investigation and monitoring practices used in green remediation.
- Outline methods for optimizing energy-intensive remediation systems.
- Explain how renewable energy sources can be integrated into remediation projects.
- Describe low-energy systems, such as enhanced bioremediation, phytoremediation, evapotranspiration covers, engineered wetlands, and biowalls.
- Identify considerations and methods for reducing air emissions.
- Describe considerations and methods for reducing energy consumption.
- Explain considerations and methods for minimizing water-resource use.
- Identify considerations and methods for reducing impacts on land and ecosystems.
- Describe considerations and methods for minimizing material consumption and waste generation.
- Explain best management practices for long-term stewardship actions.
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 20 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
| This course is applicable to professional engineers in: | ||
| Alabama (P.E.) | Alaska (P.E.) | Arkansas (P.E.) |
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 4 PDH
Length: 47 pages
