Registered Environmental Protection Engineer study guide
Registered Environmental Protection Engineer · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Registered Environmental Protection Engineer (REPE) credential is a professional certification for engineers and technical specialists who design, permit, operate, and audit environmental control systems. It signals competence across the full compliance lifecycle: interpreting environmental laws and standards, selecting and sizing treatment processes, preparing impact assessments and permit applications, and managing monitoring data. The Registered Environmental Protection Engineer study guide has 8 sections and about 3,886 words.
01Environmental Laws, Regulations, and Standards
This domain rewards the ability to place any facility obligation into the correct legal instrument and to pick the correct standard number when several appear to apply. Questions are usually scenario-based: a plant, a pollutant, a receiving medium, a province with its own standard.
458 words, about 2 min02Water Pollution Control and Wastewater Treatment
Expect calculations plus process selection: which train meets a given effluent limit, and whether the biology can actually nitrify and denitrify at the design temperature. GB 3838-2002 grades I to V define receiving-water uses; drinking-source and fishery reaches demand higher protection.
445 words, about 2 min03Air Pollution Control and Air Quality Management
Stack and ambient standards, oxygen correction, control-technology selection, and the arithmetic that separates a passing answer from a failing one. GB 3095-2012, Grade 2: SO2 60 annual / 150 daily; NO2 40/80; PM10 70/150; PM2.5 35/75 micrograms per cubic metre; CO 4/10 mg per cubic metre; O3 8-hour 160 micrograms per cubic metre; O3 1-hour 200.
489 words, about 2 min04Solid Waste and Hazardous Waste Management
Classification, storage and transfer compliance, and the incineration and landfill standards where a single number decides the answer. Is it 生活垃圾, 一般工业固体废物, or 危险废物?
470 words, about 2 min05Environmental Impact Assessment and Permitting
Classification of a project into 报告书, 报告表 or 登记表, the procedural steps that follow from that classification, and the separate permit obligation that survives approval of the EIA. 建设项目环境影响评价分类管理名录 (2021 version) sets the category from industry, scale, process, and whether the site lies in or near an environmentally sensitive area (nature reserves, drinking-water source protection zones, and similar).
464 words, about 2 min06Environmental Monitoring, Sampling, and Analysis
Sampling design, quality control, and standard-method arithmetic. Most marks sit in the calculation and in knowing which QC statistic answers which question.
551 words, about 3 min07Soil and Groundwater Contamination and Remediation
The risk-based logic of 土壤污染防治法, the difference between screening values and cleanup targets, and matching a contaminant and a geological setting to a remediation technology. 土壤污染防治法 (2019-01-01) is risk-based: prevent first, then investigate, assess risk, and apply risk control or remediation.
497 words, about 2 min08Noise, Vibration, and Other Physical Pollution Control
Standards by area class and boundary type, plus propagation arithmetic. The calculation questions are usually two-source addition and distance attenuation.
512 words, about 3 min