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This document contains instructions for a water treatment assignment involving designing and sizing various unit processes. It includes tasks to design a coarse screen, sedimentation tanks, a slow sand filter, rapid sand filters, and a flocculation tank for treating between 10-20,000 cubic meters per day of water. Dimensions, flow rates, water qualities, and other design parameters are provided for each unit process.

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Assignment For Civil

This document contains instructions for a water treatment assignment involving designing and sizing various unit processes. It includes tasks to design a coarse screen, sedimentation tanks, a slow sand filter, rapid sand filters, and a flocculation tank for treating between 10-20,000 cubic meters per day of water. Dimensions, flow rates, water qualities, and other design parameters are provided for each unit process.

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Wollo University

Kombolcha Institute of Technology


School of Civil, Water resources and Architectural
Engineering
th
Target Group: 5 year Civil Engineering Extension
Program

Water Treatment Individual Assignment Course instructor:-Amanuel B.

1) Design a coarse screen and calculate the head loss through the rack, using the following information:-
 Peak design wet weather flow = 0.631 m3/s
 Flow Velocity at peak wet weather flow = 0.9 m/s
 Flow Velocity at dry weather flow = 0.6 m/s
 Angle of inclination = 600
 Upstream depth of water = 1.12m
 Use 25 mm clear opening between bars
 Use bars with 10 mm width and 50 mm thick
2) a) Find the settling velocity (vs) for sand particles with a diameter of 0.02mm. ρ p= 2650 kg/m3, µ=
1.002*10‐ Ns/m at 20°C.
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b) Design plain sedimentation tanks to be used to remove grit and sand from river water that is used to
produce 20,000m3/d drinking water. Use the overflow rate and horizontal velocities calculated in Qn a.
Use two tanks.

3) Design a slow sand filter for a community of 40,000 populations. The per capita water demand
of the water supply is 180lit/capita per day and the rate of filtration is 150lit/m2/hr. MDF = 1.8.

4) 11.75 MLD of water after secondary sedimentation (Turbidity: < 10 NTU) is to be filtered
through a battery of rapid sand filters to reduce water turbidity to < 1.0 NTU. Based on pilot
plant studies, it was determined that 60 cm deep filter beds of sand (0.5 mm average sand
diameter) were suitable for this purpose. It was further determined that such beds could be
safely operated up to 7.5 hours at a filtration rate of 10 m3/m2/hr, without the terminal head-loss reaching 3m.
Filter backwashing rate was 1 m3/m2/min and the backwash time was 5 minutes.
A filter unit will be off-line for 30 minutes during each backwash operation. Based on this
information, determine the numbers of filter units to be provided and dimensions of each unit.
The maximum surface per filter is limited to 50m2. Determine how much filtered water is
required for backwashing each day. Also determine the schedule of operation of the filters in a
typical day.
5) Design a conventional rectangular horizontal-shaft flocculation tank unit for 10 MLD of
settled raw water after coagulant addition and rapid mixing as per design parameters given
below:

Draw a net sketch of the designed tank (top and front view) clearly showing tank dimensions,
paddle shaft position, paddle blade dimensions, water level, etc. Also mention paddle rotation
speed and power requirement.

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