UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR

INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Sewage Treatment and Disposal Assignment For 3rd Year CoTM Max. of 5 students per Group
1. What is the importance of characterize wastewater and Explain BOD, COD, THOD and DO shortly
their significance in wastewater examination? (½ page maximum Answer)
2. Write the working principle of RBC, TF, ASP and SP in wastewater treatment? (1-page max.for all)?
3. Explain shortly types of settling with their basic function in waste water treatment? (1/2 page?
4. Enlist at list 3 main units under each of the following and write their working principle shortly?
Preliminary treatment
Primary treatment
Secondary treatment. (1/2 page muximum Answer for all)
5. The designed hourly average flow of a municipal wastewater plant is 0.438 m 3/s. Design an aerated
grit chamber where the detention time of the peak flow rate is 4.0 min. Select the width of 3 m, and
use a depth-to-width ratio of 1.5: 1
6. Design a detritus tank (Grit chamber) if the dry weather flow of a separate system of sewage scheme
is 130l/s. Assume the maximum flow to be three time to average, the definition period as 45 seconds
and the velocity as 30 cm/s.
7. A grit chamber has a wastewater depth of 0.9 m. Calculate the time required by a 0.2 mm sand
particle to settle at the bottom. Also compute the length of the grit chamber if the flow through
velocity is 0.3m/s. Assume that 0.2 mm sand particle settles at a rate of 2.3 cm/s.
8. The sewage is flowing @ 4.5Million liters per day from a primary clarifier to a standard rate
trickling filter. The 5-day BOD of the influent is 160mg/l. The value of the adopted organic
loading is to be 160 gm/m3/day, and surface loading 2000 l/m2/day. Determine the volume of
the filter and its depth. Also calculate the efficiency of this filter unit. Assume 30% of BOD
load removed in primary sedimentation and Rf=1(no recirculation)
9. The sewage is flowing @ 4.5Million liters per day from a primary clarifier to a standard rate
trickling filter. The 5-day BOD of the influent is 160mg/l. The value of the adopted organic
loading is to be 160 gm/m3/day, and surface loading 2000 l/m2/day. Determine the volume of the
filter and its depth. Also calculate the efficiency of this filter unit. Assume 30% of BOD load
removed in primary sedimentation and Rf=1(no recirculation)
10. Estimate the BOD removal efficiency and effluent BOD 5 of a two-stage trickling filter using the NRC
formula with the following given conditions.
Wastewater temperature 20 0C
Plant flow Q 7570 m3/d
BOD5 in raw waste 300 mg/L
Volume of filter (each) 453 m 3
 Depth of filter 2.13 m
Recirculation for filter 1 1.5Q
Recirculation for filter 2 0.8Q
9. Determine the size of a two-stage trickling filter using the NRC equations. Assume both filters have
the same efficiency of BOD5 removal and the same recirculation ratio. Other conditions are as follows.
Wastewater temperature 20 0C
Wastewater flow Q 3785 m3/d
Influent BOD5 195 mg/L
Design effluent BOD5 20 mg/L
Depth of each filter 2m
Recirculation’s for filters 1 and 2, r1= r2 1.8