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This assignment covers materials from weeks 1 and 2 of a wastewater treatment engineering course. It contains 5 questions: 1) writing steady-state equations for a completely mixed flow reactor; 2) calculating BOD10 from dissolved oxygen measurements; 3) calculating BOD removal percentage and determining if a treatment plant meets regulations; 4) calculating various BOD values based on temperature and a reaction rate coefficient; 5) calculating concentrations of total solids, volatile solids, suspended solids, and dissolved solids based on mass measurements. The assignment is due on February 19th and is worth a total of 80 points.

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This assignment covers materials from weeks 1 and 2 of a wastewater treatment engineering course. It contains 5 questions: 1) writing steady-state equations for a completely mixed flow reactor; 2) calculating BOD10 from dissolved oxygen measurements; 3) calculating BOD removal percentage and determining if a treatment plant meets regulations; 4) calculating various BOD values based on temperature and a reaction rate coefficient; 5) calculating concentrations of total solids, volatile solids, suspended solids, and dissolved solids based on mass measurements. The assignment is due on February 19th and is worth a total of 80 points.

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SEE4217 Waste and Wastewater Treatment Engineering Semester (B) 2019/20

Assignment 1
Due Date: 19 February 2020 (Please submit via Canvas, no late assignment will be accepted)
Total = 80 points

This assignment covers materials in Weeks 1 and 2.

1. Wastewater flows into a completely mixed flow reactor (CMFR) of volume V at flow rate
Q. At the inlet, the wastewater contains pollutant A at concentration Ao and pollutant B at
concentration Bo. Within the CMFR, the pollutants undergo a reaction that is first order in
both A and B (i.e., A + B  products). Write the steady-state equations that can be
solved to calculate the concentration of A at the outlet of the reactor (you do not need to
solve the equations). (15 points)

2. The dissolved oxygen concentration measured during a BOD test is 9 mg/L initially, 6
mg/L after 5 days, and 3 mg/L after an indefinitely long period of time. Calculate the
BOD10 (in mg/L). (15 points)

3. The following data have been obtained by an engineer in a BOD test that is made to
determine how well a wastewater treatment plant is operating. (15 points)

Volume of Volume of
Initial DO Final DO
wastewater dilution water
(mg/L) (mg/L)
(mL) (mL)
Untreated
6.0 2.0 5 295
wastewater
Treated
9.0 4.0 15 285
wastewater

(a) What percentage of the BOD is being removed by this treatment plant?
(b) According to the regulation, this treatment plant supposed to remove 85% of the BOD,
can it meet the regulation?

4. Some wastewater has a BOD5 of 150 mg/L at 20oC. The reaction rate constant (k) at that
temperature has been determined to be 0.23/day. (15 points)
(a) Calculate the UBOD (in mg/L).
(b) Calculate the reaction rate coefficient at 15oC (in day-1).
(c) Calculate the BOD5 at 15oC (in mg/L).
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SEE4217 Waste and Wastewater Treatment Engineering Semester (B) 2019/20

5. The following data are obtained from a 50 mL wastewater sample at the effluent of
wastewater treatment plant. (20 points)

Measurements Weight (g)


Tare mass of evaporating dish 53.5433
Mass of evaporating dish plus residue after
53.5793
evaporation at 105oC
Mass of evaporating dish plus residue after
53.5523
ignition at 550oC
Tare mass of Whatman GF/C filter 1.5434
Mass of Whatman GF/C filter plus residue
1.5541
after drying at 105oC
Mass of Whatman GF/C filter plus residue
1.5457
after ignition at 550oC

Calculate the concentration of the following (in mg/L):

(a) Total Solids


(b) Total Volatile Solids
(c) Total Suspended Solids
(d) Volatile Suspended Solids
(e) Total Dissolved Solids

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