ARBA MINCH UNIVERSITY

INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF WATER SUPPLY & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Solved problems for waste water treatment (sewage treatment)

Question 1. Design a suitable rectangular sedimentation tank (provided with mechanical

cleaning equipment) for treating the sewage from a city provided with an assured public water
supply system, with a maximum daily demand of 12 million liters per day. Assume suitable
values of detention period and velocity of flow in the tank. Make any other assumptions,
wherever needed.
Example 1:- Two rectangular settling tanks are each 6 m wide, 24 m long and 2.7 m deep. Each
is used alternately to treat 1900 m3 in a 12-h period. Compute the surface overflow (settling) rate,
detention time, horizontal velocity, and outlet weir loading rate

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INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF WATER SUPPLY & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Solved problems for waste water treatment (sewage treatment)

Example 2:-
An average operating data for conventional activated sludge treatment plant is as follows:
 Wastewater flow, Qo = 35000m3/d
 Volume of aeration tank, VL = 10900m3
 Influent BOD, So = 250mg/l
 Effluent BOD, S = 20 mg/l
 Mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS), Xo = 2500mg/l
 Effluent suspended solids, Xe = 30mg/l
 Waste sludge suspended solids, Xu = 9700mg/l
 Quantity of waste sludge, Qw = 220m3/d
Based on the information above data, determine:
a) Aeration period (hrs)
b) Food to microorganism ratio (F/M) (kg BOD per day/kg MLSS)
c) Percentage efficiency of BOD removal
d) Sludge age (days)

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DEPARTMENT OF WATER SUPPLY & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Solved problems for waste water treatment (sewage treatment)

(d) Sludge age in days is given by

Example 4:-

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DEPARTMENT OF WATER SUPPLY & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
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