Hazardous Waste Management by LaGrega/Buckingham/Evans. If you are in any way involved in environmental engineering, it is a MUST. Saved my a$$ on at LEAST five questions on the Environmental PE Exam in October.What's the full title?
Not if you read what's in the book. Remember the story about what some Toxic Hell employees put in their tacos? :mf_followthroughfart:LaGrega sounds like it could be a kick ass mexican restaurant
I buckled and just bought the book too, and it finally arrived today.Hazardous Waste Management by LaGrega/Buckingham/Evans. If you are in any way involved in environmental engineering, it is a MUST. Saved my a$$ on at LEAST five questions on the Environmental PE Exam in October.
What he said. I have 3 tabs in my LaGrega, and more like several hundred in the ENVRM. I found most of the formulas that I needed in the ENVRM. I have one formula tabbed in LaGrega, on pg. 775, to convert to 7% O2. I had trouble with air in my first two iterations, and the 7% O2 seemed to come up quite a bit. I also have Appendices A and B tabbed, but only at the beginning of the Appendices. I used the Index and TOCs of my references extensively. I tried not to worry about the time I might be 'wasting' looking things up in the indexes during the exam. I stayed calm, looked up where to find formulas, qualitative info, etc. in my references, went to the page, and got what I needed.If you've gone through all the PPI and NCEES sample problems so far, you don't need to go through the problems in LaGrega.
For me, LaGrega was most useful for the non-quantitative questions on the exam, in the areas of hazardous waste laws, fate and transport type stuff, remediation methods & equipment, incineration,and general chemistry. I have maybe 15 tabs on the whole book, mostly related to the larger topics like those.
At work, I frequently make use of the tab to the TCLP table - it's so much easier for me to find that in LaGrega than in my CFRs.
I completely agree. And remember, units are not given in the possible answers, rather in the problem statement, so you know what you need to solve for unit wise. There were questions where you didn't need a fancy equation, just common sense.Also, don't forget units analysis. There were a couple of questions I was able to answer entirely based on analyzing the units they were asking for, and just simple conversion (and elimination of answers with wrong units)
FYI - I think I was able to answer a couple problems with this book. So glad I bought it!I am beginning to see the power of this book. I think it might be possible to answer %60 of the afternoon questions with this book alone.....maybe more!
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