Water and Wastewater Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Water and Wastewater Engineering (subject code 3164403) as prescribed for Chem. Green · Semester 6 divides the course into 5 units, covering 42 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3164403)Unit 1 Characterization and treatment of wastewater Introduction
- Wastewater flow and its characteristics
- Wastewater collection systems
- Estimation and variation of wastewater flows
- Problems of industrial wastewaters
- sampling protocol
- proportioning processes
- volume and strength reduction
- secondary and tertiary wastewater treatment processes
- Theory and design of screens
- grit chambers
- Subject Code : 3164403 Subject Name : Water and Wastewater Engineering
Unit 2 Anaerobic treatment of wastewater
- Anaerobic treatment process
- Effects of pH, temperature and other parameters on anaerobic treatment
- Concept of anaerobic contact process
- anaerobic filter
- anaerobic fixed film reactor
- fluidized bed and expanded bed reactors and up flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor
Unit 3 Activated sludge treatment for wastewater
- Physico-chemical and biological treatment strategies and their evaluation
- Theory of activated sludge process (ASP)
- extended aeration systems
- trickling filters (TF)
- aerated lagoons
- stabilization ponds
- oxidation ditches
- sequential batch reactor
- rotating biological contactor
- Mass balancing in ASP and TF and their design
Unit 4 Planning for wastewater treatment and its reclamation
- Indian standards for disposal of treated wastewaters on land and in natural streams
- Agricultural irrigation
- Ground water recharge
- Treated wastewater reclamation and reuse
- Introduction to duckweed pond
- vermiculture and root zone technology for wastewater treatment
- Special treatments
- Recent technologies of treatment
Unit 5 Industrial wastewater treatment
- Study on wastewater generation points
- wastewater characteristics
- process flow sheets
- wastewater treatment scheme for sugar
- paper/ pulp
- oil refinery
- dyes and intermediates industries