Wastewater Treatment Engineering

Q1. (a) Mention the process of water treatment. Name basic water treatment
process showing in flow diagram.
Q1. (b) What are the effect which occur on water during filtration? Explain the
theory of infiltration to explain such effect.
Q1. (c) What is sedimentation tank? Discuss its types.
Q2. (a) What are the process of coagulation? What is flocculation? What are the
factor that affect its efficiency?
Q2. (b) Why disinfection is necessary? What are the flocculation? What are the
requirements of good disinfection? Explain the different forms of chlorination.
Q2. (c) Why does soap form lather with hard water? Discuss lime-soda process in
removal of permanent hardness.
Q3. (a) Write short notes on:
1) Reverse osmosis method.
2) Activated carbon treatment
Q3 (b) Describe briefly different types of impurities present in water. Discuss the
types of filters.
Q4 (a) what are the types of setting in wastewater treatment? Elucidate their
application and occurrence.
Q4 (c) Define the process Rotating biological contactor with net sketch.
Q5 (a) Write down the purposes of preliminary and primary processes. Also list the
common method involved in preliminary and primary treatment processes.
Q5 (b) Enumerate the types of flocculation in wastewater treatment system. Write
down the working principal of comminutor and skimming tank.
Q6 (a) Define the term Recirculation Ratio .Write down the necessity of
Recirculation in tricking filter process
Q6 (b) Illustrate the common variations of activated sludge process with necessary
diagram.
Q6 (c) What are the processes involved in septic tank? Discuss briefly.

Q1 (a) Elucidate the basic characteristics of waste water and their sources. Draw a
flow diagram showing the conventional wastewater treatment process.
Q1 (b) Write down the importance of the following contaminants in wastewater
treatment:

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1.
2.
3.
4.

Nutrients
Priority pollutants
Refractory organics
Heavy metals

Q1 (c) What are the possible unit operations for the removal of
1. Nitrogen
2. Suspended solids
3. Biodegradable organics
Q2 (a) Write down the necessity of preliminary treatment process. Briefly discuss
the structure and function of skimming tank.
Q2 (b) Aeration before primary treatment offers a number of advantages in
wastewater treatment system. Justify the statement.
Q2 (d) Differentiate between Dissolved air flotation and vacuum flotation.
Q3 (a) Write down the expression derived by National Research Council (NRC) for
the determination of BOD load removal efficiency in a single-stage trickling filter.
Q3 (b) what is the use of Soakage pit? How does it work?
Q3 (c) Write down the working principle of activated sludge process. Narrate the
types of activated sludge process with necessary diagram.
Q4 (a) what is mean by Activated sludge? Write down the major components of
activated sludge process with their functions in wastewater treatment.
Q4 (b) Describe the stages involved in sludge digestion process. How can the
performance of sludge digestion process can improved?
Q4 (c) Write short note on oxidation ponds for wastewater treatment.

Q5 (a) Discuss the treatment ground water with necessary flow diagram.
Q5 (b) Mention the objectives of aeration. Find the time of exposure of water in
gravity aerators falling through detention of aeration of 4m in 1) Single descent & 2)
Five descent
What are the advantages and disadvantages of rainwater harvesting system?

Q5 (c) Write short notes on

1) Reverse osmosis method
2) Activated carbon treatment
Q6 (a) what do you mean by plain sedimentation? Discuss the types of setting
occurs in a suspensions? Working from the fundamentals, derive Stokes law for
settlement of discrete particles in water.

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b) Discuss the types of sedimentation tank.
Q7 (a) Mention the purpose of coagulation. What is flocculation? Discuss the factors
which affect its efficiency.
(b)What are the effects which occur on water during filtration? Discuss filter media
used in filtration process. Distinguish between slow filter and rapid sand filter.
Q8 (a) Why soap dose not form lather with water. Mention the types of hardness and
their removal.

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Q1. (a) Write down the objectives of primary treatment process. What are the
common methods of preliminary treatment process?
(b)Enumerate the types of floatation in wastewater treatment system. Write down
the working principal of screening and skimming tank
(c) Write down the importance of following in wastewater treatment
1) Suspended solids
2) Priority pollutants
3) Bio-degradable organics
4) Refractory organics
Q2 (a) Discuss in brief the types of setting in wastewater treatment with necessary
sketch.
(b) What are the common sub-surface soil absorption systems of wastewater
treatment process? Write explanatory note on Absorption trench
(c) What are the factor that affect the performance of a septic tank? Discuss in brief
the construction method and materials to be used in septic tank.
Q3 (a) Write down the purpose of secondary treatment process. What are the basic
methods of secondary treatment process?
(b) What is mean by recirculation ratio? What are the main reasons for using
recirculation in trickling process?
Q4 (a) Enumerate the mass balance involved in activated sludge modeling. Draw a
schematic diagram for conventional activated sludge plant. Discuss in brief the
operation system of Rotating Biological Contactor with necessary diagram.
(b) Describe the treatment ponds that are commonly used in wastewater treatment
process.
(c) What are the purposes of sludge digestion? Write down the factors that control
the digestion process.

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Q5 (a) Available raw water most be treated before domestic use. As an Engineer
how can you ensure that?
(b) Define Sedimentation Tank. Also discuss some major factors to be considered in
its design.
Q6 (a) Describe the constituents of a Coagulation Sedimentation plant.
Q7 (a) Discuss the difference between Slow sand filter and rapid gravity filter.
(b) Explain the break point chlorination process with necessary diagram.
Q8 (b) Discuss in brief the methods of desalination process