Mewar University
Department Of Civil Engineering
Subject- Advanced Waste Water Treatment, Semester-I
M. Tech Environmental Engg, Subject Code-Eve 615
Question Bank
Part-I
Q1.What is the difference between BOD and COD? A 2% solution of a sewage
sample is incubated for 5 days at 200 C. The depletion of oxygen was found to be 4
ppm. Determine the BOD of the sewage?
Q2. What are the factors affecting self-purification of polluted streams? What
measures would you recommend to control stream pollution in India?
Q3. What is sewage farming? What are its advantages over the method of disposal
of sewage by dilution? What crops should be grown on such farms?
Q4. Describe the aim of the sewage treatment methods, using one or more
appropriate key words given below:
a. Screen b. Activated sludge process C. grit chamber
Q5. Discuss anaerobic digestion of sludge under the following heads:
a. Definition and composition of sludge.
b. Fundamental mechanism of anaerobic digestion
c. End product and their disposal
Q6. What is meant by activated sludge? Describe with neat diagram the treatment
of sewage by activated sludge process. Mention the advantages and disadvantages
of this system.
Q7. Distinguish between primary treatment and secondary treatment. Draw the
flow diagram of sewage treatment using activated sludge process?
Q8. Write a short note on:-
A. Grit chamber b. septic tank c. oxidation ditch d. oxidation pond
Q9. Give an explanatory note on:
a. Oxygen sag curve b. sewage sickness c. broad irrigation
Q10.What is BOD? Deduce an expression for BOD first stage reaction?
Q11. For conventional ASP observation are obtained as follows:
Operates for average flow of 20 MLD with 0.7% of flow was tested daily.
The reactor is operated with detention time of 4 hour and has biomass
concentration of 4000 mg/L. Biomass concentration in the sludge is 2.5
times more than in the reactor. Under these conditions determine the time
for which biomass is retained in the reactor.
Q12. State the mechanism responsible for oxygen transfer to the wastewater in an
aeration tank. Explain the most pre-dominant mechanism for the oxygen transfer?
Part-II
Q13. A town having a population of 30,000 persons is producing the following
sewages:
(i) Domestic sewage @ 120 l.c.p.d. having 200 mg/L of BOD.
(ii) Industrial sewage @ 3,00,000 l.p.d. having 800 mg/l of BOD.
Design high rate single stage trickling filters for treating the above sewage.
Assuming that the primary sedimentation removes 35% of BOD. Allow an organic
loading of 10,000 kg/ha-m/day (excluding recirculated sewage). The recirculation
ratio is 1.0; and the surface loading should not exceed 170 M.l./ha/day (including
recirculated sewage). Also determine the efficiency of the filter and the BOD of
the effluent.
Q14. An average operating data for conventional activated sludge treatment plant
is as follows:
1) Wastewater flow = 35000 m3/day
2) Volume of aeration tank = 10,900 m3
3) Influent BOD = 250 mg/L
4) Effluent BOD = 20 mg/L
5) Mixed Liquor Suspended solid (MLSS) = 2500 mg/L
6) Effluent suspended solids =30mg/L
7) Waste sludge suspended solids = 9700 mg/L
8) Quantity of waste sludge = 220 m3/day
Based on the above information, determine:
a) Aeration period (hrs)
b) Food to Microorganism ratio (F/M)n (kg BOD per day/kg MLSS)
c) Percentage efficiency of BOD removal
d) Sludge age (days).
Q15. Design the primary sedimentation tank to treat wastewater with average flow
rate of 10 MLD and peak flow of 22.5 MLD.
Q16.Explain the mechanisms of gas transfer in detail with a neat diagram?
Q17. Differentiate between aerobic and anaerobic treatment of sewage, giving
major end products. Name one treatment method in each category.
Q18. Design an Oxidation pond for treating domestic sewage of 10,000 persons
supplied with 200 litres per capita water per day. The BOD and the suspended
solids are each of 300mg/l. permissible organic loading for the pond is not less
than 500 kg/ha/day. The detention periods is not exceeding 6 days. Assume width
of the pond to its length as 1:2 and operational depth as 1.2 m. Assume any other
suitable data.
Q19. Design an imhoff tank to treat the sewage from a small town width 30000
population, assuming that the suspended solids in the influent sewage are 200 ppm
water content of sludge is 97 percent. Design the tank for three month sludge
storage. Rate of sewage is 137 litres per head per day.
Q20. Give the flow diagram for the activated sludge process and describe the
working of the activated sludge plant.
Q21. List down the factors affecting the performance of biological phosphorous
removal? Also explain them.
Q22.What is micro-straining? What are the design and Performance parameters of
micro-strainers?
Q23. Describe Sludge thickening and dewatering? How can we remove pathogen
from sludge? Explain the mechanism?
Q24. What is the principle behind anaerobic digestion? Explain the UASB Reactor
in detail? Also give the design parameters of UASB reactor.
