Waste Water Engineering
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Waste Water Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Waste Water Engineering (subject code 3160513) as prescribed for Chemical · Semester 6 divides the course into 3 units, covering 27 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 (3160513)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
Unit 2 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 3 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
- Subject Code: 3160513