Week 4: Assignment

Description for the week: biological treatment, pst design

Question 1. Select the suspended type of treatments from among the different treatment systems
given below.

a. Activated sludge
b. Trickling filter
c. Stabilization pond
d. Aerated lagoon
e. Rotating biological filter

Question 2. Select the correct statements regarding design of primary sedimentation tanks.

a. Primary design variables are weir loading rate, detention time and depth.
b. In circular tanks it is easier to remove solids, but they have higher construction costs.
c. To prevent short circuiting dissipation of inlet energy and flow distribution is required.
d. Rectangular shaped tanks use the area more effectively than circular shaped tanks.

Question 3. Which of the following is mainly involved in the settling process in secondary settling
tanks?

a. Compression settling
b. Hindered settling
c. Gravity settling
d. Flocculent settling

Question 4. Consider a completely mixed activated sludge process

Q = 3 MLD

Influent BOD = 200 mg/L

Effluent BOD = 50 mg/L

Aeration tank volume = 500 m3

Biomass concentration in tank = 2500 mg/L

Quantity of waste sludge = 0.05 MLD

Suspended solids (waste sludge) = 6600 mg/L

Assume suspended solids in effluent are negligible.

Question 4. The hydraulic retention time of the system is _______hours.

Solution: 5.32 hours(Range: 5.3-5.35)

𝑉
𝛩=
𝑄
 665
𝛩= = 0.2217𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 = 5.32ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠
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Question 5. The solids retention time of the system is _______days.

Solution: 5.038 days(Range:5-5.1)

V ∗ 𝑋𝑇
𝜃𝐶 =
𝑄𝑤 𝑋𝑅 + (𝑄 − 𝑄𝑤 )𝑋𝐸
665 ∗ 2500
𝜃𝐶 = = 5.038 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠
50 ∗ 6600

Question 6. Activated sludge is the (select most appropriate option):

a. Aerated sludge in the aeration unit.

b. Sludge settled in the humus tank.
c. Sludge in the secondary tank after aeration and rich in microbial mass.
d. Sludge in the secondary tank after aeration and rich in nutrients.

Question 7. The flow sheet of the liquid stream of sewage treatment scheme consists of:

1) Biological Treatment
2) Primary settling tank
3) Grit chamber
4) Screen chamber
5) Secondary settling tank

The correct sequence of these units is:

a. 3,4,1,2,5
b. 3,4,2,1,5
c. 4,3,2,1,5
d. 4,3,1,2,5

Question 8. Consider a wastewater plant set up in a city X

Elevation of city =258 m,
Annual average design temperature = 18 oC
Standard oxygen transfer rate of 38.5 Kg of O2/hr.
 = 0.6,  = 0.95
CS20 = 9.08 mg/L,
Saturation concentration at WW temperature and elevation H, CSTH (at 17 degree and 258 m)= 9.53
mg/L,
Pressure at full depth of air release, Pd = 140 KPa
Patm (258 m) = 96 KPa,
%age oxygen in air leaving water, OT = 19%,
Concentration of DO in WW, CL= 2 mg/L
Calculate the average oxygen transfer rate(in Kg of O 2/hour) in the aeration tank.
Solution: 21.1 (Range: 20-22)
𝑃𝑑 𝑂𝑇
𝐶𝑎𝑣𝑔 = 𝐶𝑠.𝑇.𝐻 0.5( + )
𝑃𝑎𝑡𝑚 21
140 19
𝐶𝑎𝑣𝑔 = 9.53 ∗ 0.5 ( + ) = 11.26 𝑚𝑔/𝐿
96 21

𝑆𝑂𝑇𝐸((𝛽𝐶𝑠 − 𝐶𝑙 )𝛼𝐹(1.024)𝑇−20 )
𝐴𝑂𝑇𝐸 =
𝐶𝑠20

38.5((0.95 ∗ 11.26 − 2)0.6 ∗ 1(1.024)18−20)

𝐴𝑂𝑇𝐸 = = 21.1 𝑘𝑔𝑂2 /ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟
9.08

Question 9. A wastewater plant has 2700mg/L MLVSS in the aeration tank. If the primary effluent
has a BOD of 225 mg/L and a flow of 10 MLD and tank volume 2000 m3, then the F/M ratio is _____.

Solution: 0.4167(Range:0.40-0.42)

Material balance for completely mixed aeration basin, SS on substrate around entire system we get

𝐹 𝑄𝑆𝑜
=
𝑀 𝑉𝑋
𝐹 10 ∗ 1000 ∗ 225
= = 0.4166
𝑀 2000 ∗ 2700

Question 10. Select the major nutrients required for biological treatment.

a. Nitrogen
b. Sulphur
c. Phosphorous
d. Sodium
e. Calcium

Question 11. The efficiency of a sedimentation tank does not depend upon______.

a. Detention time
b. Depth of tank
c. Length of the tank
d. Horizontal velocity of water