Safety
Water Treatment
Wastewater Treatment
HWEA
Laboratory
100

A space large enough for a person to bodily enter and perform work, but not designed for continuous occupancy with limited means of entry and exit is ____.

A space large enough for a person to bodily enter and perform work, but not designed for continuous occupancy with limited means of entry and exit is ____.

100

This gas is greenish yellow in color, has a noxious odor, is 2.5 times as dense as air and may cause toxicity if inhaled, or through contact with the skin.

What is chlorine gas?

100

How much does one gallon of water weigh?

What is 8.34 lbs/gal?

100

The year HWEA was founded.

What is 1895?

100

ph measures this

What is the concentration of hydrogen ions?

200

In case of a chemical contact with eyes or skin this is the minimum amount of time you should flush the area with water.

What is 15 minutes?

200

This term is defined as the killing or inactivation of pathenogenic organisms in water.

What is disinfection?

200

A one-cubic foot container will hold this many gallons of water.

What is 7.48 gallons?

200
What HWEA stands for.

What is Hopkinsville Water Environment Authority?

200

The minimum number of buffers required to calibrate a pH meter.  

What is two?

300

A SDS should be kept on file for this long.

What is 30 years?

300

Water hammer is most likely caused by which of the following conditions (dissolved gases in the water, a ruptured water line, or closing a valve to fast)  

What is closing a valve too fast?

300

What are sludge particles produced in raw or settled wastewater (primary effluent) by the growth of organisms in aeration basin in the presence of oxygen?

What is activated sludge?

300

Original name of HWEA.

What is Hopkinsville Sewerage and Water Commission

300

What laboratory device sterilizes microbial media and laboratory equipment using pressurized steam?

What is an autoclave?

400

These are designed to protect only your eyes from chemical splashes.

What are googles?

400

The condition that occurs in reservoirs when cooler, denser water at the surface sinks toward the bottom and warmer water at the bottom of the reservoir is pushed upward.

What is turnover?

400

What is the process called where bacteria change the ammonia and organic nitrogen in wastewater into oxidized nitrogen (usually nitrate)?

What is nitrification?

400

HWEA's Corporate Safety Statement.

Zero injuries, equipment damage, or property damage.

400

What is the pH endpoint for total alkalinity?

What is 4.5?

500

The safety procedure that requires that an energy source be turned off and locked, and that information describing why a system is shut down is displayed on a tag is called what?

What is lock-out/tag-out?

500

Fusible plugs on a chlorine cylinder are designed to melt at what temperature?

What is 158 degrees F?

500

The term that describes the condition when small bubbles of air form and eplode against the impeller causing a pinging sound is what?

What is cavitation?

500

HWEA's first general manager.

Who is Thomas Morris?

500

What BOD stands for

What is Biochemical or Biological Oxygen Demand?

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