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Week 5 Assignment 5
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Week 1 1) During preliminary and primary treatment of sewage, 1 point

Week 2 a. Suspended materials are removed in primary sedimentation

b. Floating materials are removed by screening

Week 3
c. Grit and sand are removed by grit chambers
Week 4
d. All of the above
Week 5 No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Lecture 23
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Lecture 24
d. All of the above
Lecture 25
2) Which of these could be removed in Grit Chamber: 1 point
Lecture 26

Lecture 27
a. Dissolved salts and ions

Lecture b. Oil and grease

material: Week
c. Gravel and cinders
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d. All of the above
Quiz : Week 5
Assignment 5 No, the answer is incorrect.
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Week 5 Accepted Answers:
Week 5: c. Gravel and cinders
Practice
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3) The detention period of grit chambers is of the order of: 1 point

Week 6 a. 1 minute

b. 5 minutes
Week 7

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4) Primary treatment
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Week 11

a. Removal of suspended matter

Week 12
b. Removal of soluble gasses
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d. Removal of pathogenic bacteria

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Solution No, the answer is incorrect.
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Students a. Removal of suspended matter

5) The tube and plate settlers compared with conventional sedimentation tank, generally 1 point
require

a. Lesser area but higher input energy

b. More area but lower input energy

c. More area and higher input energy

d. Lesser area and lower input energy

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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d. Lesser area and lower input energy

6) The settling velocity of a spherical particle in still water is given by: 1 point

a. Lacey’s formula

b. Darcy’s law

c. Hazen William’s formula

d. Stoke’s law

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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d. Stoke’s law

7) The screens typically provided before primary treatment in a sewage treatment plant are: 1 point

a. Fine Screen

b. Course Screen

c. Micro Screne

d. None of the above

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
b. Course Screen

8) Surface loading for a rectangular sedimentation tank with length L, width B and height H, 1 point
having design discharge of Q, is represented by:

Q
a.
BH

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Q
b.
BL

Q
c.
LH

Q
d.
LBH

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Q
b.
BL

9) The ratio of the design discharge to the surface area of a sedimentation tank is known as 1 point
its:

a. Surface loading

b. Overflow velocity

c. Overflow rate

d. All of these

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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d. All of these

10)Which of the following types of settling phenomenon can be analysed by the classic 1 point
sedimentation laws of Newton and Stokes?

a. Discrete settling

b. Flocculent settling

c. Hindered settling

d. Compression settling

No, the answer is incorrect.

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a. Discrete settling

11)Settling velocity is typically highest under: 1 point

a. Discrete Settling

b. Floculant Settling

c. Zone Settling

d. Compression Settling

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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b. Floculant Settling

12)A typical screen will have higher capture efficiency if it is kept: 1 point

a. Parallel to the direction of flow

b. Perpendicular to the direction of flow

c. At an angle of 30⁰-60⁰ to the direction of flow

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d. Orientation is immaterial

No, the answer is incorrect.

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c. At an angle of 30⁰-60⁰ to the direction of flow

13)Provision of an equalization tank helps in: 1 point

a. Balancing fluctuating flows

b. Balancing fluctuating concentrations

c. promoting self neutralization

d. All of the above

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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d. All of the above

14)For a grit chamber, if the recommended flow velocity is 0.25 m/sec, and the detention 1 point
period is 1 minute, then the length if the tank is:

a. 15 m

b. 25 m

c. 240 m

d. None of the above

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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a. 15 m

15)The terminal settling velocity of a 0.05 mm dia spherical particle with specific gravity 2.4, in 1 point
water of density 1000 kg/m3 and dynamic viscosity 0.00113: Ns/m2 , would be:

a. 0.0482 m/s

b. 0.0265 m/s

c. 0.0120 m/s

d. 0.0017 m/s

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
d. 0.0017 m/s

16)The minimum size of the particulate matter of specific gravity 2.0 that will get removed by 0 points
a ideal settling chamber of 10m length and 1.5 m height, of the viscosity 1.7 x 10−5 kg/m sec and
horizontal velocity into the chamber is 0.3 m/sec, will be:

a. 5.2 µm

b. 52 µm

c. 520 µm

d. 52 mm

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0

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Accepted Answers:
b. 52 µm

17)A grit chamber of dimensions 12.0m x 1.50m x 0.80 m liquid depth has flow of 720 m3 /hr. 1 point
Its surface loading rate is

a. 40,000 m3 /hr/m2

b. 4000m3 /hr/m2

c. 400 m3 /hr/m2

d. 40 m3 /hr/m2

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
d. 40 m3 /hr/m2

18)The velocity through a bar rack when the approach velocity is 0.60 m/s and the measured 1 point
head loss is 38 mm, would be:

a. 0.94 m/s

b. 2.28 m/s

c. 0.63 m/s

d. 1.56 m/s

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
a. 0.94 m/s

19)At a sewage treatment plant for a flow of 3m3 /s, the surface loading rate is 0.3m3 /s/m2 . 1 point
The cross-sectional area of the grit chamber will be:

a. 3m2

b. 10m2

c. 25m2

d. 30m2

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
b. 10m2

20)The settling basin at a wastewater treatment plant having a flow rate of 0.6 m3 /sec has an 1 point
effective settling volume that is 20 m long, 3 m tall and 6 m wide. What percent of the particles that
have a settling velocity of 0.004 m/sec will be removed?:

a. 100 %

b. 80 %

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c. 70 %

d. 60 %

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
b. 80 %

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