ADAMA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY

School of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Department of Civil Engineering

Chapter 2 Tutor
Course Name: Water Treatment (CEng 4172) Target Group: Civil 4th year

Example 1
Design a bell mouth intake for a city of 80,000 persons drawing water from a channel which
runs for 10hrs in a day with depth of 1.8m. Also calculate the head loss in intake conduit if
the treatment plant is 0.5 km away and draw a net sketch of the canal intake assume average
consumption per person is 150L/day
Assume the velocity through the screen & the bell mouth to be less than 16cm/s & 32cm/s
respectively.

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Example 2
Determine the building up of head loss through a bar screen when 50% of the flow area is
blocked off by the accumulation of coarse solids assume the following conditions are
applied.
Approach velocity =0.6m/s, Velocity through a clean bar screen =0.9m/s and Open area for
flow through clean bar screen =0.19m2

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Example 3
Determine the building up of head loss through a bar screen .when 25 % of the flow area is
blocked off by the accumulation of coarse solids. Assume the Conditions of the above
Example.

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Example 4

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Example 5
Find the dimension of a rectangular sedimentation basin for the following data:
 Volume of treated water =3*106l/s

 td=4hr =240min

 velocity of flow = 10cm/min

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Example 6
Find out the quantity of alum required to treat 18million liters of water per day. The dosage
of alum is 14mg/lit. Also work out the amount of CO 2 released per liter of treated water.

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Example 7
A rectangular settling tank without mechanical equipment is to treat 1.8milion litres per day
of raw water. The sedimentation period is to be 4 hours, the velocity of flow 8cm/minute and
the depth of water and sediment 4.2m. if an allowance of 1.2m for sediment is made, what
should be:
a) The length of the basin?
b) The width of the basin?

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Example 8
Two million litres of water per day is passing through a sedimentation tank which is 6m
wide, 15m long and having a water depth of 3m.
a) Find the detention time for the tank
b) What is the average flow velocity through the tank?
c) If 60ppm is the concentration of suspended solids present in turbid raw water, how
much dry solids will be deposited per day in the tank, assuming 70% removal in the
basin and average specific gravity of the deposit as 2.
d) Compute the over flow rate

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Example 9
8mg of copperas is consumed with lime at a coagulation basin, per litre of water. Determine
the quantity of copperas and the quick lime required to treat 10 million litres of water.

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Example 10
Design six slow sand filter beds from the following data:

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Example 11

Chlorine usage in the treatment of 20,000cubic meter per day is 8kg/day. The residual after
10minute contact is 0.20mg/l. calculate the dosage in milligrams per litre and chlorine
demand of the water.

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