MCE SUPPLEMENTARY 2ND SEMESTER EXAMINATION 2020

Assignment problem on Industrial Wastewater Treatment

Fullmarks 30

Answer all the questions

QNo1)

a) Give an outline to describe different types of effluent streams in a large size industrial
factory.
b) What is the necessity of conducting Industrial waste survey? How it can be
accomplished? Give suitable example. 6

Q No2. )

A food processing industry generates discharges contaminated effluent with fluctuation of flow
depending on schedule of production and demands of products.
The total flow is 0.16 m3/sec.Sampling was done for 15 consecutive days for every 3 hrs
intervals. The average BOD is 485 mg/l and maximum reaches at 760 mg/l.The effluent BOD
from equalization basin is limited to 600mg/l.Graphical analysis indicates 16% reaches
285mg/land 84% probability a value of 710 mg/l
Determine dimension of an equalization unit to meet the desired effluent standard with 95%
probability that the equalized effluent will be equal to or less than 600mg/l.Assume Z=1.65.Depth
of the tank 2.60 m.check HRT.
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Q No 3)

a)What is a floatation tank ? How it is different from a oil skimming tank? What is API
separator? Give some design criterion on API separator. 4
b) It is decided to adopt 25kg/d-m2 solids loading rate for design of a DAF unit to concentrate
0.33% solid from a paper mill white liquor tank to about 5% solid. Determine the size of the tank
and pressure in kpa for recycled flow with following information,
Solids flow rate 400 m3/day
A/ S ratio 0.02 ml/mg
Saturation fraction 0.65
SLR 10 L/M2/MIN
Recycled flow 500 m3/day
Air solubility 0.0190 l of air/Lof liquid.
Assume any other data if required. 7

QNo 4) Answer brief ly the following questions

a] Titration curve preparation is necessary for design of a neutralization tank.

b) Anaerobic treatment is necessary for high BOD effluent

c) Precipitation tank is adopted for heavy metal wastewater treatment. 6
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