Courses in the Department of Civil Engineering

• CIVE 442 Design of Subsurface Remediation Activities (4) Massmann.
  Technologies for cleaning sites with subsurface contamination, including groundwater extraction, vapor extraction, groundwater containment, and in-situ treatment. Analytical tools and methods for making design calculations are emphasized. Comprehensive design projects involving design an devaluation of site remediation activities required.
  Prerequisites: 440,464; senior standing in Civil Engineering.
  
  
• CIVE 488 Hazardous Waste Engineering (3) Stensel.
  Classification of hazardous wastes; resource conservation, Recovery Act Regulations; characteristics and behaviour of toxic organics; superfund; groundwater contamimation, solutions. Hazardous waste site remedial action; case histories; sampling; landfill design. Stabilization and processing technologies, including incineration, carbon adsorption, emerging techniques.
  Prerequisite: 351 or permission of instructor. Offered: A.
  
  
• CEWA 552 Physical-Chemical Treatment Processes (4) Benjamin.
  Physical-Chemical Treatment Processes (4)Benjamin Principles and design of major physical-chemical unit processes used in water, wastewater, and hazardous waste treatment. Processes include chemical and reactor kinetics, filtration, chemical coagulation, ion exhange, adsorption, and gas transfer. Development of mathematical models, laboratory demonstrations, and evaluation of current design practice.
  Prerequisite: 485 or permission of instructor. Offered: W.
  
  
• CEWA 562 Hazardous Air Pollution (3) Pilat.
  Control of emissions of hazardous or toxic air pollutants. Government regulations, determination of needed control efficiency. Emission control by thermal incineration, catalytic incineration, flares, ondensation, carbon adsorption, and absorption (wet and dry). Hazardous waste incinerators. Hazardous waste incinerations. Case studies.
  Offered: jointly with CHEM E 562; W.