Basic Environmental Engineering PDF
Basic Environmental Engineering PDF
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Q.1 Wilson’s disease is caused by
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a. Lead
b. Manganese
c. Iron
d. Copper
Solution. 1
(d)
a. 3
b. 1.6
c. 1.65
d. 1.7
Solution. 2
(a)
a. Fluoride
b. Lead
c. Chloride
d. Nitrates
Solution. 3
(d)
a. 114.8 mg/l
b. 119.3 mg/l
c. 126.4 mg/l
d. 128.7 mg/l
Solution. 4
(c)
Q.5 ________ G value with ________ time tend to produce small, dense flocs.
a. Large, long
b. Low, long
c. Large, short
d. Low, short
Solution. 5
(c)
a. Methane
b. Cl2
c. Sunlight
d. None of these
Solution. 6
(c)
Solution. 7
(d)
Q.8 What are the air pollutants responsible for acid rain in downwind areas for major
industrial emission?
Solution. 8
(c)
Q.9 If a town is having a population of 90000 then according to Manual of Water Supply and
Treatment, the fire demand will be ____________ kl.
Solution. 9
Q.10 The town of Gorakhpur has a low-turbidity raw water and is designing its overflow weir
at a loading rate of 150 m3/day/m. If its plant flow rate is 0.5 m3/s, then the length of
Solution. 10
Q.11 If electrical conductivity of a water sample at 25°C is 23 μS/cm, then the total dissolved
solids will be ____________ mg/l.
Solution. 11
Q.12 If two sound sources have equal pressure of 2000 μPa, then the resultant sound
pressure will be ________ dB.
Solution. 12
43 (42.9 - 43.1)
Q.13 If the period of incubation is 12 days at 20°C in the relative stability test on sewage,
then the relative stability will be ________ %.
Solution. 13
Q.14 Settling test on a sample drawn from an aeration tank liquor of ASP (MLSS = 3200)
mg/l) was carried out with 1 litre sample. The test yielded a settled volume of 250 ml.
The value of sludge volume index will be _____________ ml/g.
Solution. 14
Q.15 If the moisture content of a sludge is reduced from 97% to 95%, then the volume of
sludge will decrease by _____________%.
Solution. 15
40 (39.9 - 40.1)
Q.16 A grit chamber of dimensions 10 m × 8 m × 1 m liquid depth has a flow of 600 m3/hr. If
surface loading rate is 3000 m3/hr/m2, then detention time is ________ minutes.
Solution. 16
8 (7.9- 8.1)
a. 1 and 2
b. 2 and 3
c. 1 and 3
d. All of the above
Solution. 17
(d)
Q.18 600 m3/day of water is to be obtained from a proposed infiltration gallery, which is
placed at 6 m depth from sub-surface water table. The coefficient of permeability of the
soil aquifer is 100 m/day. What is the length of gallery if the drawdown in the gallery on
pumping is not to exceed 4 m? The radius of influence may be assumed to be 100 m.
a. 37.5 m
b. 34.3 m
c. 31.6 m
d. 29.8 m
Solution. 18
(a)
a. 1 and 2 only
b. 2 and 3 only
c. 1 and 3 only
d. All of these
Solution. 19
(c)
The drop manholes are provided in sewerage system when there is change in
elevation of ground level.
Q.20 Match List-I (Valve) with List-II (Purpose) and select the correct answer using the codes
given the lists:
a. a
b. b
c. c
d. d
Solution. 20
(b)
Q.21 A sample of water requires 113 ml of distilled water to render the odor barely
detectable. What are the volume of sample and TON respectively?
a. 87 and 1.77
b. 113 and 1.77
c. 113 and 2.3
d. 87 and 2.3
Solution. 21
(d)
A + 113 = 200
Q.22 JTU (Jackson Turbidity Unit) is based on ________ principle and FTU is based on
________ principle.
a. absorbing, scattering
b. scattering, absorbing
c. scattering, scattering
d. absorbing, absorbing
Solution. 22
(a)
Q.23 Match List-I (Water/waste water parameter) with List-II (Test) and select the correct
answer using the codes given below the lists:
a. a
b. b
c. c
d. d
Solution. 23
(d)
Q.24 What are the daily flow capacity (m3/day) and the transmissivity (m2/day) of a sand
stone aquifer if:
The aquifer height is 15 m
The aquifer width is 800 m
The aquifer length is 2 km
The head change over the length of 2 km is 3 m
Solution. 24
(c)
Q.25 Waste water of a certain large colony contains 10–4.8 mmol/litre of OH– ions at 25°C.
The pH of this sample is ________.
Solution. 25
Q.26 _________ kg of bleaching powder is needed per day to chlorinate 6.4 MLD of water so
that after 45 minutes of contact, there remains chlorine of 0.22 mg/l with chlorine
demand 1.28 mg/l and the bleaching powder has only 20% available chlorine.
Solution. 26
48 (47.5 - 48.5)
Q.27 An electrostatic precipitator is to be constructed to remove fly ash particles from stack
gases flowing at ‘Q’ m3/sec. Analysis of a similar system shows that the drift velocity
can be taken as ω = 3.0 × 105 dp m/s. If plate area required to collect 0.5 μm particles
with 99 percent efficiency is 307 m2, then the area required for collect particles with 90
Solution. 27
Q.28 If the specific gravity of a suspended particle is increased from 2 to 2.5, then the
settling velocity will change from VS to ______________VS.
Solution. 28
Q.29 Water table of an aquifer drops by 125 cm over an area of 100 km2. The porosity and
specific retention of the aquifer material are 30% and 7.5%, respectively. The amount of
Solution. 29
Q.30 If a bacterial cell count increases from 103 to 109 in 10 hours, then (doubling) time will
be __________ hr.
Solution. 30
Q.31 A town has an existing horizontal flow sedimentation tank with an overflow of 17
m3/day/m2, and it wishes to remove the particle that has settling velocity of 0.2
mm/sec. The percentage removal should be expected for each particle in an ideal
sedimentation tank is __________.
Solution. 31
Q.32 A township is required to treat 400000 litres of sewage per day which has a 5 day BOD
of 140 ppm. The oxidation pond is used for the purpose. The effluent can have a BOD
of 15 ppm. The loading is to be 25 kg of 5 day BOD per hectare per day. The required
area of the pond is ___________ ha.
Solution. 32
2 (1.9 - 2.1)
Q.33 In a stabilisation pond, if BOD of effluent entering the pond is 150 mg/L and BOD
removed is 85%, then the detention period will be ____________ days.
[Assume, KD (at base 10) = 0.1/day]
Solution. 33