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This document contains an exam for a sewage treatment engineering course. It has two parts - short answer questions and workouts/calculations. The short answer section asks about types of biological wastewater treatment systems, the role of microorganisms, and factors affecting sludge digestion. The workout section provides calculations related to trickling filter design, dissolved oxygen levels downstream of a wastewater discharge, parameters for an activated sludge plant, and calculating sludge age for an activated sludge system. The exam is worth 50% of the student's grade for the sewage treatment engineering course.

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Final Exam

This document contains an exam for a sewage treatment engineering course. It has two parts - short answer questions and workouts/calculations. The short answer section asks about types of biological wastewater treatment systems, the role of microorganisms, and factors affecting sludge digestion. The workout section provides calculations related to trickling filter design, dissolved oxygen levels downstream of a wastewater discharge, parameters for an activated sludge plant, and calculating sludge age for an activated sludge system. The exam is worth 50% of the student's grade for the sewage treatment engineering course.

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University of Gondar

Institute of Technology

School of civil and hydraulics

Department of Hydraulic and Water Resource Engineering

Final Examination [50%] Time allotted = 3፡30 hr

Course Name: Sewage Treatment [CEng 4151] Academic Year: 2019/20,


Semi: I
Credit Hr: 3 [ECTs -5 CP] Target Group: 5th year Civil Extension

Part one: Short answer

1. Classify all types of Biological wastewater treatment system as attached and suspended
growth process? [2pts]
2. Explain the Role of Microorganisms in Wastewater Treatment? [2pts]
3. Explain what will happen in Activated sludge treatment plant when F/M is high and low?
[2pts]
4. What are the factors which affects sludge digestion process? [2pts]

Part two: Workout


1. Estimate the BOD removal efficiency (for each Trickling filter and overall) and effluent
BOD5 of a two stage trickling filter using the following given conditions. Also determine
Hydraulic loading rate and Organic loading rate for each filter. [10pts]
 Wastewater temperature = 20oC
 Plant flow (Q) = 7570 m3
 BOD5 in raw waste = 300 mg/L
 Volume of filter (each) = 453 m3
 Depth of filter (each) = 2.13 m
 Recirculation for filter 1 = 1.5 Q
 Recirculation for filter 2 = 0.8 Q
 35% of BOD of raw wastewater is removed by primary settling.
2. A certain college discharges 17,360 m3 /d of treated wastewater into a nearby river. The
treated wastewater has a BOD5 of 12 mg/L and kd of 0.12 d-1 at 20oC. The river has a flow
rate of 0.43 m3 /s and an ultimate BOD of 5.0 mg/L. The DO of the river is 6.5 mg/L and
the DO of the wastewater is 1.0 mg/L. Saturation dissolved oxygen can be read from
table, thus at 20oC, DOs = 11.33 mg/L. Use re-oxygenation constant of 0.24/d at 20 oc.
The average speed of the stream flow in the river is 0.03 m/s and the depth is 5.0 m.
Determine the DO concentration at a point 5 km downstream from the college discharge
into the river. Also determine the critical DO and the distance downstream at which it
occurs. Based on the above result sketch DO-sag curve. [16pts]

3. An average operating data for conventional activated sludge treatment plant is as


follows: Wastewater flow,

 Q = 37000m3/d
 Volume of aeration tank, V = 10700m3
 Influent BOD, Yo = 280mg/l
 Effluent BOD, YE = 30 mg/l
 Mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS), Xt = 2800mg/l
 Effluent suspended solids,XE = 35mg/l
 Waste sludge suspended solids, XR = 9900mg/l
 Quantity of waste sludge, Qw = 250m3/d

Based on the information above data, determine:

(a) Aeration period (hrs) [1pt]

(b) Food to microorganism ratio (F/M) [2pts]

(c) Percentage efficiency of BOD removal [1pt]

(d) Sludge age (days) [2pts]

4. An activated-sludge system has an influent flow of 23,700 m3 /d with suspended solids of


86 mg/L. Three aeration tanks hold 1600 m3 each with MLSS of 2500 mg/L. Calculate
the sludge age for the system. [10pts]

GOOD LUCK

By: Arega G

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