ECE 2512: Public Heath Engineering IV

Tutorial Sheet No. I

1. Discuss the historical development of Public Health Engineering

2. A wastewater treatment plant is being planned to serve a
population of 30,000 persons. The average daily water supply
demand is 135 litres. Determine the required capacity for the
plant and collection system elaborating terms for wastewater
flow rates derivation.

3. Discuss the characteristics of wastewater and their sources and

implication for treatment
4. Outline the physical methods, chemical and biological methods
used for wastewater treatment

5. Calculate oxygen requirement of a complete mix activated

sludge process treating domestic wastewater having flow rate of
0.25 m3/sec. BOD5 concentration of settled wastewater is 250
mg/L. The desired effluent BOD5 is 6.2 mg/L. Increase in the
mass of MLVSS is 1,646 kg/day. Assume that the temperature is
20 °C and the conversion factor, BOD5 / BODL is 0.68
6. A swimming pool containing 972 m3 of water is to be re-
circulated at a turnover rate of 6 hours. If the filter flow rate
100l/min/m2;
i) Determine the sand surface area of the filter required. The
surface area for each filter tank may not exceed 12m2
ii) If the filter cells are backwashed individually at the full
circulation rate determine the flow rate for backwash.
7. A coagulation treatment plant with a flow rate of 0.5 m3/s is
dosing alum at 23.0 mg/L. No other chemicals are being added.
The raw water suspended solids concentration is 37 mg/L. The
effluent suspended solids concentration is 12.0 mg/L. The
sludge solids content is 1.00% and the specific gravity of the
sludge solids is 3.01. What volume of sludge must be disposed
of each day?

8. The following test results were obtained for a wastewater

sample. The size of the sample was 85ml. determine the
concentration of total and volatile solids expressed as mg/L
Mass of evaporation dish = 22.6435g
Mass of evaporating dish plus residue after evaporating at
105oC = 22.6783g
Mass of evaporating dish plus residue after ignition at
550oC = 22.6768g
9. Explain the application of on-site wastewater treatment and
disposal, outlining the key processes involved

10. 5-Day BOD of wastewater at 20oC is 210mg/L. what will be

the ultimate BOD? What will be the 10-day demand? If the
sample was incubated at 30oC, what would the 5-day BOD have
been? Take k=0.23d-1

11. A treatment plant is to be designed for treatment of

wastewater containing 250mg/l suspended solids. Assuming
that 55% of these solids are removed in the sedimentation
tanks; determine the volume of the sludge produced for every
thousand cubic metre of wastewater. Assuming that the sludge
has moisture content of 96% and the specific gravity of the
solids is 1.2. Find the unit weight of the sludge.

12. Design a grit chamber to remove sand particles (rp = 2650

kg/m3) with a mean diameter of 0.21 mm. Assume the sand is
spherical and the temperature of the wastewater is 20oC. The
wastewater flow is 10,000 m3/d. A velocity of 0.3 m/s will be
automatically maintained, and the depth must be 1.5 times the
width at maximum flow