Courses and Workshops by Drs. Ben Keet |
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| Course / Workshop | Level |
| Basic soil sampling techniques | polytech |
| Basic soil strength investigations (geotech) | polytech |
| Advanced soil sampling, anaerobic, sterile | post poly / uni |
| Basic groundwater sampling techniques | polytech |
| Advanced groundwater sampling, anaerobic, sterile | post poly / uni |
| Sampling techniques for sludges, underwater bottoms | polytech |
| Measurements and sampling of free floating layers (hydrocarbons) | poly | Site remediation planning, contracting incl. legal and insurance for large sites focus on risk analysis, failure scenarios | post-uni |
| Determination of hydrocarbon volume in the soil and HC volume recoverable | uni |
| Site investigation strategy, grid or no grid, depth matrix | poly/uni |
| Contaminated soil science, soils, soil chemistry, soil microbiology | uni |
| Workshop on partitioning of chemicals in soil, water and gaseous phase | uni |
| Site remediation planning, contracting incl. legal and insurance for small sites | uni |
| Site remediation planning, contracting incl. legal and insurance for large sites focus on risk analysis, failure scenarios | post-uni |
| Dealing with uncertainties; strategies from initial investigation through to final verification of clean-up | post-uni |
| Site remediation planning, contracting incl. legal and insurance for large sites focus on risk analysis, failure scenarios | post-uni |
| Contaminated site management; a course for those dealing with many location, ranking of risks, divestment strategies and costing | post-uni |
| Pre-purchase considerations relating to purchase of contaminated and clean sites regarding property development and minimising risks | post-uni |
| Pumping tests and other permeability measurements techniques | poly/uni |
| Using groundwater and solute transport models | uni |
| Statistical data analysis, multivariate, GIS mapping | uni |
| In-situ remediation techniques overview of common techniques | poly/uni |
| In-situ remediation techniques overview of complex techniques | uni |
| In-situ remediation techniques design and implementation of common techniques | poly/uni |
| In-situ remediation techniques design and implementation of complex and advanced techniques | uni |
| Field course on in-situ respiration testing (bioventing preparation) | poly |
| Field course on radius of influence determination (bioventing, biosparging and SVE preparation) | poly |
| Field course on sampling soil vapour before and during in situ remediation | poly |
| Drainage design, calculate drainage density, incl. field course to determine K values of soils | poly/uni |
| Principles of irrigation, field capacity of soils, use of several types of tensiometers | poly/uni |
| Irrigation well design, groundwater flow, fouling of wells and remedies to clean up / keep wells clean. | poly |
| Specialised soil and groundwater measurements, logging, GPR, geophysical, remote sensing, subjects on request. | uni |
| Automated sampling, use of sensors and auto-feedback systems (PC-PLC) for irrigation , long term sampling and in-situ remediation, incl use of direct to internet modems | poly/uni |
| Field analysis of soils and groundwater , basic parameters | poly |
| Field analysis of soils and groundwater, ions, anions, TOC, etc | poly/uni |
| Field/Lab analysis techniques using GC, AAS, UV-Vis etc | poly/uni |
| MNA (Monitored Natural Attenuation) for hydrocarbon contaminated sites, principles, strategy, implementation | uni |
| MNA (Monitored Natural Attenuation) for chlorinated hydrocarbon contaminated sites, principles, strategy, implementation | uni |
| Phytoremediation, principles and practice (hydrocarbons, chlorinated compounds, metals) | uni |
| Permeable barriers or full filed remediation; design and decision making | uni |