Physico-Chemical Treatment Technologies
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The official GTU curriculum for Physico-Chemical Treatment Technologies (subject code BE05013011) as prescribed for Env. Engg · Semester 5 divides the course into 5 units, covering 51 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 (BE05013011)Unit 1 Introduction
- Classification of treatment systems: Primary
- Objectives and selection criteria of treatment methods
- Characteristics of water and wastewater
- types of treatment
- conventional water and wastewater treatment
- Conceptual differences in water and wastewater treatment. 05 Program Name: Bachelor of Engineering Level: UG Branch: Environmental Engineering Subject Code: BE05013011 Subject Name: Physico-Chemical Treatment Technologies
Unit 2 Preliminary treatment of water and wastewaters
- types of screens and headloss in screens
- Grit chambers: purposes and types of grit chambers
- Flow equalization
- aeration, and gas transfer
Unit 3 Primary Treatment of water and wastewater
- Coagulation and Flocculation Colloid characteristics
- Colloidal stability and Zeta potential
- destabilization of colloids
- Mechanisms of coagulation
- types of coagulants and their chemistry
- Rapid mixers and power requirement
- Jar test procedure for optimum dose of coagulant and interpretation Flocculation: Types of flocculation
- Flocculation kinetics and design parameters
- types of flocculators
- power requirement II
- Sedimentation: Purpose
- Types of settling phenomena
- Newton’s and Stoke’s law for discrete settling
- use of excel solver for calculating settling velocity
- Analysis of discrete settling
- flocculant settling
- zone settling and compression settling
- Zones of Sedimentation tank
- Types of sedimentation tanks
- design parameters
- tube settlers
Unit 4 Primary Treatment of water and wastewater
- I Filtration Purpose
- Mechanisms of filtration
- Classification of filtration systems
- different types of filters
- Construction and Working of Slow sand and Rapid sand filters
- hydraulics of filtration II Disinfection: Purpose
- Characteristics of ideal disinfectant
- Disinfection methods and mechanisms
- Factors affecting disinfection
- Disinfection with chlorine
- Chlorine chemistry and breakpoint chlorination
- types of chlorination
- Disinfection using ozone and ultraviolet radiation
Unit 5 Sludge dewatering, treatment and disposal
- Sources and composition of sludge
- estimation of bulk density of sludge
- need and methods of chemical conditioning
- Principles and methods of Thickening: Gravity Thickeners Centrifuge
- Belt press filter
- Principles and methods of Dewatering: Sludge drying bed, filter press
- vacuum filters
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