CHEMICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT FALL 2022

Che541
Design of grit chamber ,Trickling Filter and oxidation pond

1) Design a grit chamber of rectangular cross-section. Following information

is provided: Design Flow (Q): 50 MLD; Settling velocity of the smallest
particle to be removed completely is 0.0236 m/s; Specific Gravity of
particles (Ss): 2.65; Horizontal mean flow velocity (V): 0.30 m/s;
Theoretical depth (D): 1.4 m; Calculate the dimensions and slope (mm/m)
of the grit chamber. While designing the actual grit chamber, add 25
percent to the depth for grit collection, and 0.25m freeboard. Also add 50
percent to the theoretically calculated length. Value of Manning’s ‘n’ is
0.020. Assuming that the volume of grit in the wastewater is 0.15 m3/ML,
and 100 percent grit removal in the grit chamber, calculate the total mass
and mass of dry grit produced per day. The collected grit has a porosity of
0.5.

2) A tricking filter with the following dimensions is available. Depth: 2 m,

Surface area: 150 m2. The media consists of stones of 7-10 cm diameter.
This filter will be used to treat 0.6 MLD wastewater with BOD 5 = 300
mg/L. The trickling filter will be operated in the high-rate mode, i.e., OLR:
0.48 – 0.96 Kg/m3/d, HLR: 10 – 40 m3/m2/d, re-circulation ratio: 1-2. Based
on this information, calculate the expected BOD5 removal efficiency.

3) Determine bulk volume of filter medium for treating 2mld of wastewater

flow with following data Inlet BOD5 =300 mg/l, Effluent BOD5 =30 mg/l, BOD
removal efficiency = 75%, K=0.068 m/d, Sp. Surface area = 80 m 2/m3.

4) 1 MLD of wastewater with influent soluble BOD5 (S o) = 75 mg/L, TKN = 13

mg/L (as N) and 2 mg/L phosphorus (as P) is to be treated in an oxidation
pond such that effluent soluble BOD 5 (S) is 5 mg/L. Calculate the
oxidation pond surface area, assuming the depth of the pond to be 0.5 m.
Calculate oxygen requirement for microbial respiration and oxygen
supplied by algal growth, and check adequacy of the design by assuming
that 50 percent of the oxygen produced by algal growth is available for
microbial respiration. Neglect oxygen input into the pond by mass
transfer from atmosphere. Calculate the effluent algal, effluent nitrogen
and phosphorus concentration from the pond, and also calculate the total
effluent BODU from the pond.