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This document contains information about a final exam for a sewage treatment course, including: 1) The exam is divided into two parts - short answer questions and workouts/calculations. The short answer section includes questions about stream self-purification processes, trickling filter operation, and sludge digestion stages. 2) The workout section involves calculations for designing a trickling filter, modeling DO sag curves in a river receiving treated sewage, and analyzing a two-stage trickling filter system and activated sludge process. 3) The exam is worth 50% of the student's grade and covers key concepts of sewage treatment processes, hydraulic and organic loading rates, BOD removal efficiency, and

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This document contains information about a final exam for a sewage treatment course, including: 1) The exam is divided into two parts - short answer questions and workouts/calculations. The short answer section includes questions about stream self-purification processes, trickling filter operation, and sludge digestion stages. 2) The workout section involves calculations for designing a trickling filter, modeling DO sag curves in a river receiving treated sewage, and analyzing a two-stage trickling filter system and activated sludge process. 3) The exam is worth 50% of the student's grade and covers key concepts of sewage treatment processes, hydraulic and organic loading rates, BOD removal efficiency, and

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University of Gondar

Institute of Technology

School of civil and hydraulics

Department of Hydraulic and Water Resource Engineering

Final Examination [50%] Time allotted = 3፡30 hr

Course Name: Sewage Treatment [CEng 4151] Academic Year: 2019/20,


Semi: I
Credit Hr: 3 [ECTs -5 CP] Target Group: 5th year Civil Extension

Part one: Short answer [ 2 pts each]

1. List out the processes for the streams to be self-purify?


2. Explain in short the operation principle of Trickling filter for treatment of sewage?
3. What does attached growth and suspended growth processes mean?
4. What are the stages in the sludge digestion process?
Part two: Workout
1. Design a single –stage trickling filter to yield an effluent BOD5 of 40 mg/l. The
influent BOD5 following primary clarification is 160 mg/l and the flow is 110 m3/day.
Maintain an hydraulic loading rate of 25 m/d and filter depth of 2 m. [8pts]
2. A city of 200000 people deposits 1.05 m 3/s of sewage having ultimate BOD of 28
mg/l and 1.8 mg/l of DO into a river that has a flow rate of 7.08 m 3/s and a flow speed
of 0.37 m/s. Just upstream of the release point, the river has ultimate BOD of 3.6 mg/l
and DO of 7.6 mg/l. The saturation value of dissolved oxygen is 8.5 mg/l .The de-
oxygenation coefficient kd is 0.61/day and re-oxygenation coefficient kr is 0.76/day.
Assuming there is complete mixing of the sewer and the river. Find
A. Initial oxygen deficit and ultimate BOD just downstream of the outfall. [2 pts]
B. The time and distance to reach critical point.[ 4pts]
C. The minimum dissolved oxygen. [ 5 pts]
D. The DO concentration at 8Km. [4pts]
E. Show the result by sketching Dissolved oxygen-sag cur. [1pt]
3. Estimate the BOD removal efficiency (for each Trickling filter and overall) and
effluent BOD10 of a two stage trickling filter using the following given conditions. Also
determine Hydraulic loading rate and Organic loading rate for each filter. [10pts]
 Wastewater temperature = 20oC
 Plant flow (Q) = 8000 m3/d
 BOD5 in raw waste = 300 mg/L
 Volume of filter 1 = 460 m3
 Volume of filter 2 = 440 m3
 Depth of filter (each) = 2.13 m
 Recirculation for filter 1 = 150 percent Q
 Recirculation for filter 2 = 80 percent Q
 25% of BOD of raw wastewater is removed by primary settling.

4. An average operating data for conventional activated sludge treatment plant is as


follows:

 Wastewater flow,Q = 37000m3/d


 Volume of aeration tank, V = 10700m3
 Influent BOD, Yo = 280mg/l
 Percentage efficiency of BOD removal = 85 %.
 Mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS), Xt = 2800mg/l
 Effluent suspended solids,XE = 35mg/l
 Waste sludge suspended solids, XR = 9900mg/l
 Quantity of waste sludge, Qw = 250m3/d

Based on the information above data, determine:

(a) Aeration period (hrs) [1pt]

(b) Food to microorganism ratio (F/M) [2pts]

(c) Sludge age (days) [3pts]

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