CE 801A- Environmental Pollution and Control

Assignment-II

1. Determine the effective height of the stack from the following given data having a unstable
ambient atmospheric condition.
a) Physical stack is 203 m tall with 1.07 m inside diameter.
b) Wind velocity is 3.56 m/sec. c) Air temperature is 13°C. d) Barometric pressure is 1.5 bars.
e) Stack gas velocity is 9.14 m/sec. f) Stack gas temperature is 149°C.
2. An industry burns 6.25 tonnes of coal per hour and discharges the combustion products through
a stack having an effective height of 80m. The coal has a sulphur content of “R%” (R= last two
digit of your class roll number) and the wind velocity at the top of the stack is 8m/s. Atmospheric
conditions are moderately stable. Determine –
i) The distance from the stack at which this maximum concentration occurs.
ii) The max ground level concentration of SO2
3. An industry utilizes 0.5ML of oil fuel per month. It has also been estimated that for every 1ML
of fuel burnt in the factory per year the quantities of various pollutants emitted are as:
Particulate matter 2.9 t/yr, SO2 “R t/yr” (R= last two digit of your class roll number), CO
5t/yr. The factory also utilizes boiler which generates steam @20 t/hr. Calculate the height of the
chimney required for safe dispersion of pollutants.
4. Calculate the minimum size of a particle that will be removed with 100% efficiency from a
settling chamber under the following condition with a correction factor of 2-
Horizontal flow velocity is 0.5 m/s, dynamic viscosity at 77°C is 2*10-5 kg/m-s, specific gravity
of the particle is 2.1, chamber length 7m and chamber height 2m.
5. An air stream with a flow rate of 7m/s is passed through a cyclone of standard proportions. The
diameter of the cyclone is 2.0 m.
a) Determine the removal efficiency for a particle with a density of 1.5 g/cc and a diameter of 8µm.
b) Determine the collection efficiency based on the above if a bank of 64 cyclones with diameter
of 24cm are used instead of the single large unit.