Water & Wastewater Treatment Technologies
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The official GTU curriculum for Water & Wastewater Treatment Technologies (subject code 2164010) as prescribed for Civil Infra · Semester 6 divides the course into 6 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 (2164010)Unit 1 Water Characteristics
- Indian standard for drinking water
- Water Quality Parameters: pH, Alkalinity
- Electrical conductivity
- Plate counts and Most probable number (MPN)
Unit 2 Water Treatment and Distribution System
- Quantity and Source of water
- unit operations for water treatment
- plain sedimentation
- sedimentation tank and its design
- ion exchange and adsorption
- Water storage and distribution system
Unit 3 Waste Water Characteristics & Treatment
- Pollution of Natural Waters Emission and receiving body standards
- Stream pollution
- Ocean disposal
- Waste Water Characteristics: Chemical oxygen demand (COD)
- Dissolved oxygen (DO)
- Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)
- Ions like chloride
- Nutrients i.e. nitrogen and phosphorous
- Treatment Fundamentals: Flow-sheets
- physico-chemical and biological processes for water quality control
Unit 4 Physico-Chemical Treatment
- 4 9% Process dynamics and reaction
- Screens comminutors
- Grit chambers
- floatation and chemical treatment
Unit 5 Biological Treatment Processes
- Aerobic and anaerobic
- suspended – growth and attached – growth treatments
- Activated – sludge unit trickling filters
- Aerated lagoons
- stabilization ponds
- oxidation ditches
- Theory of sludge Handling and disposal
- Low cost sanitation system: septic tanks
- soak pit, stabilization ponds
Unit 6 Sewerage system
- Collection and estimation of sewage: Different types of sewers
- design period
- variations in sewage flow
- estimation of waste water discharge and Storm water discharge
- Hydraulic design of sewer: Hydraulic formulae
- maximum and minimum velocities in sewer
- hydraulic characteristics of circular sewer in running full and partial full conditions
- laying and testing of sewer
- sewer appurtenances and network