NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ROURKELA

End-Sem Autumn Semester Examination-2016 B.Tech 1st Semester

Environment and Safety Engineering (ESE) Subject code- CE-130
Full Marks – 50 Time allotted- 3 hours
Answer All Questions. Assume any relevant data, if required.
Answers for Group – A and Group – B should be written on separate pages.
Figures at the right hand margin indicate marks.
Q. GROUP - A Marks
No
1a Results of chlorine demand test on a raw water are given below: 3
Sample Chlorine dose Residual chlorine after
No (mg/l) 10 min contact (mg/l)
1 0.2 0.19
2 0.4 0.36
3 0.6 0.50
4 0.8 0.48
5 1.0 0.2
6 1.2 0.4
7 1.4 0.6
8 1.6 0.8
Sketch a chlorine demand curve. What is the break point dose and what is the
chlorine demand at dose of 1.2 mg/l?

Design a grit chamber for maximum waste water flow of 0.156 m3/sec with the
1b horizontal velocity as 0.2 m/sec and detention time period as one minute. 2

A multi-tray settling chamber having 8 trays, including the bottom surface,

2 handles 8 m3/s of air at 20 °C. The trays are spaced 0.25 m apart and the chamber 5
is to be 1 m wide and 4 m long. What is minimum particle size of density 2000
kg/m3 that can be collected with 100 % efficiency? What will be the efficiency of
the settling chamber if 50 µm particles are to be removed? Assume µg at 20 °C as
1.8 x 10-5 kg/m-s.

3
Design a standard rate trickling filter to treat 6.0 Mld of sewage of BOD of 5
210 mg/l. The final effluent should be 30 mg/l and organic loading rate is
320 g/m3/d. Also calculate the efficiency of the trickling filter.
5
4 Discuss EIA of any one industry

5 Write short notes on ANY TWO.

(a) Pressure filter 2.5 X 2
(b) Impacts of noise pollution =5
(c) ESP
(d) Global environmental challenge.

GROUP B

6a
Assume that a “windowless room” contains three light bulbs (say, X, Y, and Z),
one fuse and one switch. The probabilities of occurrence of fault events power 2
failure, switch failure, fuse failure, bulb X failure, bulb Y failure, and bulb Z
failure are 0.07, 0.05, 0.02, 0.01, 0.01, and 0.03, respectively. Calculate the
probability of occurrence of the unsafe event “dark room.”
b

What is meant by PPE? Describe various PPEs used to protect from hazards and 3
7 accidents.

What is meant by Hazard and Operability (HAZOP)?

8 5

9 Compare ergonomic aspects of a big classroom and of an examination hall. 5

Write a comparative discussion between Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) and Fault 5
Tree Analysis (FTA) with the help of examples.

10
Write short notes on the following:
i) Hazard in chemical industry 2.5 X 2
ii) Mine safety =5

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