Water Treatment Technologies
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The official GTU curriculum for Water Treatment Technologies (subject code ME01018021) as prescribed for EM · Semester 1 divides the course into 4 units, covering 34 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 (ME01018021)Unit 1 Introduction
- Water Characteristics
- drinking water quality standards
- unit operations and processes
- types of treatment
- conventional treatment scheme for surface water and groundwater
- site selection criteria for treatment plant
Unit 2 Preliminary treatment of water
- types of aerators and its design ● Screens
- types of screens and its design
Unit 3 Surface water treatment
- ● Coagulation and Flocculation: Colloid characteristics
- chemistry of metallic coagulants
- polyelectrolytes as coagulant
- Coagulant dose requirement
- mixing of coagulants
- power requirement
- Flocculation: Types of flocculation
- types of flocculators
- Design considerations
- DEsign of Clariflocculator ● Sedimentation: Purposes
- Sedimentation types
- Sedimentation Zones
- Types of sedimentation tanks
- design parameters
- tube settlers
- design of Sedimentation tank and tube settler of water treatment ● Rapid Sand Filtration (RSF) : Mechanisms of filtration
- Working of RSF, hydraulics of RSF, different types of filters
- filter clogging
- filter washing
- design parameters of RSF and Design of RSF ● Disinfection: Purposes
- Characteristics of ideal disinfection
- Factors affecting disinfection
- Disinfection with chlorine
- Chlorine dose requirements Program Name: Engineering Level: Post Graduate Branch: Environmental Management
- Course/Subject Code: ME01018021 Course / Subject Name: Water Treatment Technologies
Unit 4 Ground water treatment for specific parameters
- ● Water softening with dose calculations ● Iron and Manganese removal ● Arsenic removal ● Deflouridation systems ● Cascade Aeration ● Adsorption for odour and colour removal ● UV irradiation for Disinfection ● Reverse osmosis for TDS removal