CE 341 Exam #2 Fall 2020

Open book and open notes. 50 minutes. 5 Questions. 100 point total.
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1. A 5 day BOD test is run on pulp mill wastewater using a 10 mL of waste and 290 mL of
distilled water. The initial dissolved oxygen concentration is 9.2 mg / L. The DO after 5 days is
1.8 mg/L.
[10] a. What is the BOD5?
[10] b. Calculate the ultimate CBOD from your BOD5 value above given a reaction rate k of 0.22
day-1.

2. The Lo value just downstream of a wastewater outfall is 30 mg/L. The DO saturation level is
9 mg/L , the deoxygenation rate coefficient is 0.25 day-1, and the reaeration coefficient is 0.49
day-1.
[10] a. Calculate the critical downstream distance given an initial oxygen deficit of 1 mg/L and a
river velocity of 86 km / day.
[10] b. Calculate the minimum DO.
[5] c. Is the minimum DO level calculated above problematic for river health?

[20] 3. What diameter of a circular clarifier would be needed to treat 5 MGD of wastewater,
removing 15 μm diameter organic particles with density 1.2 g/cm3. You propose to design a 4-
m deep basin and assume an average water temperature of 10 ˚C.

[20] 4. To disinfect 5 MGD of drinking water you propose treatment with HOCl using 4 CSTR
tanks in series, each of the same volume. A 4-log reduction in Giardia is required. Given an
inactivation rate constant k* of 0.53 min-1, calculate the required volume of the tank in gallons.

[15] 5. Consider a well-mixed aeration lagoon to remove BOD from a waste stream flowing at 5
MGD. The lagoon is 100-m long, 30-m wide and 3-m deep. Given the default microbial kinetic
parameters (Ks = 60 mg BOD5/L, μm = 3 day-1, kd = 0.06 day-1) calculate the concentration of
BOD5 in the waste stream leaving the lagoon.