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The document provides information about the parameters of a wastewater treatment plant using an activated sludge process. It details that the plant treats 40,000 m3/day of wastewater with 200 mg BOD5/L, uses an aeration tank with a volume of 12,000 m3 and sludge concentrations of 2,100 g VSS/m3. The solid retention time is 7 days. It asks to calculate the F:M ratio, hydraulic retention time, waste activated sludge flow rate, and return activated sludge flow rate.

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Exercise 5

The document provides information about the parameters of a wastewater treatment plant using an activated sludge process. It details that the plant treats 40,000 m3/day of wastewater with 200 mg BOD5/L, uses an aeration tank with a volume of 12,000 m3 and sludge concentrations of 2,100 g VSS/m3. The solid retention time is 7 days. It asks to calculate the F:M ratio, hydraulic retention time, waste activated sludge flow rate, and return activated sludge flow rate.

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SETK 3413: POLLUTION CONTROL

WASTEWATER TREATMENT
EXERCISE 5
QUESTION

A wastewater treatment plant uses an activated sludge process for secondary


treatment of a 40 000 m3/day wastewater stream with substrates
concentration of 200 mg BOD5/L. The aeration tank has an active volume of 12
000 m3 and a solids concentration of 2 100 g VSS/m3, and solid concentration of
10 000 g VSS/m3 in the return activated sludge (RAS) line. The solid retention
time is 7 days.

Determine F:M ratio (d-1), hydraulic retention time (hours), flow rate of waste
activated sludge (m3/day) and flow rate of return activated sludge (m3/day)
Exercise 23rd Nov
Question 1
• What is Environmental Impact Assessment and why EIA is
required?
(a)Explain the difference
Question 2 between Standard A and B

(b) Your wastewater treatment


plant release effluent with
BOD5 of 20mg/L, suspended
solids 50 mg/L and Copper 0.75
mg/L. Comments on the quality
of the effluent discharge based
on standard given
Question 3
(a) Calculate five-days BOD of a 10% concentration of diluted sample
having D1 = 6.7 mg/L and D2 = 2mg/L.

(b) Determine the BOD5 of the previous question if the consumption of


oxygen in the blank sample is 0.5mg/L
Question 4
• List the inorganic forms on Nitrogen based compounds
• List technologies that can be used to treat/ remove Nitrogen based
compounds in water/wastewater treatment
Question 5
The town of San Jose has a sedimentation basin with a critical settling
velocity of 17 meter/day. It wishes to remove particles that have settling
velocities of 0.1 mm/s, 0.2 mm/s, and 1 mm/s. What percentage of
removal should be expected for each particle in the sedimentation basin?

(P = 100*vs/vo , vo = overflow)
Question 6

A town has an existing horizontal flow sedimentation tank with an


overflow rate of 17 m3/day/m2, and it is desirable to remove particles
that have a settling velocity of 0.1 mm/sec. Assuming the tank as an
ideal sedimentation tank, the percentage of particles removal is
approximately equal to
Question 7
A wastewater treatment plant receives peak wastewater of 4500
m3/day, with a quarter of it representing the Dry Weather Flow. If the
MLVSS in the aeration tank is 1875 mg/L and the return sludge flow is
225 m3/day, calculate the required concentration of sludge to be
recycled back to the aeration tank to maintain sufficient MLSS
concentrations in the tank. Take the MLVSS/MLSS ratio as 0.75

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