Fundamentals of Water and Wastewater Treatment
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The official GTU curriculum for Fundamentals of Water and Wastewater Treatment (subject code 3711701) as prescribed for EE · Semester 1 divides the course into 7 units, covering 44 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 (3711701)Unit 1 Quality and Quantity of Water
- Quantity and quality of water
- Water demand
- Drinking water standards
- waste water effluent standards
- water quality index
- impurities in water and physical
- chemical and biological characteristics of water
Unit 2 Types of Wastewater Treatment
- Unit operations
- physical process
- chemical process
- biological process
- secondary and tertiary treatment
- water supply scheme
- design period
- layout of water and wastewater treatment plant
- treatment plant selection 7
Unit 3 Physico-chemical Treatment of Water & Wastewater
- Aeration and gas transfer
- Rapid mixing and flocculation
- coagulation processes
- stability of colloids
- destabilization of colloids
- transport of colloidal particles
- Jar test
- Types of settling
Unit 4 Filtration
- Theory of granular media filtration
- classification of Filters
- slow sand filters and rapid sand filters
- Mechanism of filtration
- modes of operation and operational problems
- negative head and air binding: dual and multimedia filtration
- pressure filters
- principle of working
Unit 5 Disinfection
- Disinfection mechanism
- Factors affecting disinfection
- Disinfection agents
- UV radiation 5 13
Unit 6 Biological Treatment for Wastewater
- Types of biological treatment: Suspended & attached Growth Processes
- Design Parameters for Biological Treatments
- Activated sludge and trickling filter processes
- rotating biological Contactor
Unit 7 Advanced Water & Wastewater Treatment Methods
- Ion Exchange process
- Membrane Processes
- Reverse Osmosis
- Dialysis and Electrodialysis and Nanotechnology
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