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Environmental Engineering
Chapter 2: Treatment of water (sedimentation)

1. The time period for which the water is stored in a sedimentation tank is called _____
a) Time of flow
b) Frequency of flow
c) Settling time
d) Detention period
2. Settling velocity of a spherical body in a viscous fluid is given by ___________
a) Reynolds law
b) Newton’s law
c) Stokes law
d) Charles law
3. The settling velocity of a particle in a sedimentation tank increases if
a) particle size is decreased
b) the surface area of tank is increased
c) the depth of tank is decreased
d) none of the above
4. For a given discharge, the efficiency of sedimentation tank can be increased by
a) increasing the depth of tank
b) decreasing the depth of tank
c) increasing the surface area of tank
d) decreasing the surface area of tank
5. The detention period for plain sedimentation water tanks, is usually
a) 4 to 8 hours
b) 8 to 16 hours
c) 16 to 24 hours
d) 24 to 36 hours.
6. Alum as a coagulant is found to be most effective when pH range of water is
a) 2-4
b) 4-6
c) 6-8
d) 8-10
7. A rectangular sedimentation tank is treating 2.4MLD of water with a detention period of 4 hours.
a) 200cu.m
b) 360cu.m
c) 300 cu.m
d) 400 cu.m
8. Which of the following is the disadvantage of Alum?
a) Increases taste
b) imparts permanent hardness
c) it is costly
d) takes lot of time for coagulation
9. copperas used as a coagulant is
a) ferrous sulfate
b) copper sulphate
c) copper arsenic
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d) ferric oxide
10. For a flow of 11.4MLD and a detention time of 2 hours, the surface area of a rectangular sedimentation tank
to remove all particles having settling velocity of 0.33 mm/s is
a) 20 m^2
b) 100m^2
c) 200 m^2
d) 400 m^2

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