Suppose you are to measure the BOD removal rate for a primary wastewater treatment plant. You take two samples of raw sewage on its way into the pant and two samples of the effluent leaving the plant. Standard five-day BOD tests are run on the four samples, with no seeding, producing the following data:
a) FInd BOD₅ for the raw and treated sewage, and the percent removal of BOD in the treatment plant.
b) Find the DO that would be expected in Sample 2 at the end of the test.
c) What would be the maximum volume of treated sewage for Sample 4 that could be put into the 300mL BOD bottle and still have the DO after five days remain above 2mg/L?
Answers
Problem 1: Find the TON when odor is just barely detected in a flask containing 40 ml of
sample water.
Solution:
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A B TON
Problem 2: The BOD6 of a wastewater is determined to be 400 mg/L at 20o
C. The k value at
20o
C is known to be 0.23 per day. What would be BOD8 value if tests were run at 15o
C?
Answer: Solved using MATHCAD, however, can be solved otherwise also.
Problem 3: 6 ml of wastewater is diluted to 300 ml distilled water in standard BOD bottle. Initial
DO in the bottle is determined to be 8.5 mg/l. DO after 5 days at 20 C is found to be 5 mg/l.
Determine BOD5 of wastewater and compute the ultimate BOD.
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w
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Since BODt = BODu (1- -kt e ) at any particular temperature
BODu = BOD5 /(1- -5k e ) = 175 / (1- -5 0.23 e
) = 256 mg/l.
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L
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1
BODu
BOD6 20
1 exp k 206
534.458 mg
L
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1
BOD8 15 BODu 1 exp k 158 410.643 mg
L
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UNSOLVED PROBLEMS
1. Write a review of India’s environmental legislations directly related to chemical process
industries (use other references also).
2. Write various standards which have to me met for discharge of various types of pollutants
from Pulp and Paper industry.
3. Write various standards which have to me met for discharge of various types of pollutants
from a thermal power plant of 440 MW.
4. Which are the major polluting chemical process industries? Write their major
environmental concerns and affect on the regional and global climate changes.
5. Write full forms of
a. CPCB
b. MoEF
c. BIS
d. EIA
e. BOD
f. COD
g. TKN
h. TDS
i. VOC
j. TOC
k. TOCl
l. PAN
m. HPLC
n. AAS
o. AES
p. ICP
q. NDIR
r. TOEM
s. XRF
t. ppm
u. ppt
v. JTU
w. NTU
x. TON
y. MPN
z. PAH
aa. MINAS
bb. NAAQS
6. Write short notes on the following:
a. Environmental ethics
b. EIA
c. BOD
d. COD
e. Water quality monitoring
f. TON
g. Alkalinity, its types and significance
h. Fecal indicator bacteria
i. MPN
j. Primary water quality criterion
7. Write in short importance of various physical constituents in wastewaters.
8. Differentiate between the followings:
a. Apparent and true color
b. BOD, COD and TOC
c. Total, dissolved, and suspended solids
d. SPM, RSPM, PM10 and PM2.5
9. Write in brief about various water quality parameters need to be determined to assess the
quality of water.
10. What is air pollution? What are the various sources of air pollution? Classify various
types of air pollutants.
11. Write about particulate matter and their types, sources and effects on environment.
12. Write about gaseous air pollutants, their properties and significance.
13. Fugitive emissions and their sources. What are the various methods for measuring and
controlling fugitive emissions?
14. Write about water use minimization in and out-side process industries. Write about
methods for minimizing boiler water.
15. Explain in detail water recycling and its quality. Write different motivational factors,
benefits and uses of recycled water.
16. The BOD5 of a wastewater is determined to be 150 mg/l at 20oC. The k value at 20oC is
known to be 0.23 per day. What would be BOD8 value if tests were run at 15oC
17. Answer all questions:
i. Forest Conservation Act was passed in the year__________________ .
ii. Ozone is a primary/secondary pollutant. Choose the correct one.
iii. Arsenic can be measured by FTIR/AAS/NMR/HPLC. Choose the correct
one.
iv. Annual ARSENIC maximum concentration in the new NAAQS is ___
ng/m3
.
v. Annual PM2.5 maximum concentration in the new NAAQS is ___ µg/m3
.
vi. Old notification of EIA was notified in the year
_____________________.
vii. Noise limits for motor-cycle (from at 7.5 metre in dB(A) at the
manufacturing stage) is 70/75/80/85 dB. Choose the correct one.
Took me a long time to write this answer
few things you should write by your own