ENV

VE220/925

Wate
er Quality and Ecological Eng
gineering//Managem
ment

(
3)
3 - Solu
utions
Tuttorial 2 (Week
stion 1:
Ques
Identtify the water supply sources of Sydney, Illawarra aand Blue Mountains.
(i)
M
Wha
at are the site speciffic water quality
q
parrameters aand values
s Sydney
Catcchment Au
uthority (S
SCA) uses
s to chara
acterise thheir waterr supplies
before water treatment.
Tabu
(ii)
ulate the va
arious hea
alth and ae
esthetic rela
ated waterr quality pa
arameters
that Sydney Water
W
use
es for testing the qu
uality of drrinking watter before
and after treatm
ment in the
e Baulkham
m Hills, Pa
arramatta aand Blackto
own area.
Com
mpare the values
v
of th
he above parameterrs with the Australian
n Drinking
Wate
er Quality Guidelines
G
s. (ADWQ, 2011)
LUTION:
SOL
(ii)
Wate
er supply sources w
within the SCA catc
chments:

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Sydney-Illawarra
a-Blue Mou
untains Wa
ater Supplyy System
(www.sca.com
m.au: Annual water quality report 2010-1 1)

(iii)

Drinking wate
er supplied
d to Baulk
kham Hills
s, Parramaatta and Blacktown
area
a come frrom the P
Prospect water tre
eatment. T
The wate
er quality
measured by Sydney w
water:
Physica
al-chemica
al-biologic
cal parameters of RAW
R
waterr measure
ed before
treatme
ent at Pros
spect wate
er treatme
ent plant.

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/ENVE925

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Physica
al-chemica
al-biologic
cal param
meters of TREATED
D water measured
m
after tre
eatment att Prospectt water tre
eatment plant.

(www.sydneywater.com
m.au: Quarterly Drinking Waterr Quality Report Annual water qquality report Ap
pril-June 2015)

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mar

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/ENVE925

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Question 2:
A solids analysis is to be conducted on a sample of wastewater. The procedure is as
follows:
1. A Gooch crucible and filter pad are dried to a constant mass of 25.439 g.
2. Two hundred millilitres of a well-shaken sample of the wastewater is passed
through the filter.
3. The crucible, filter pad and removed solids are dried to a constant mass of 25.645 g.
4. One hundred millilitres of the filtrate [water passing through the filter in (2) above]
is placed in an evaporation dish that had been pre-weighed at 275.419g.
5. The sample in (4) is evaporated to dryness and the dish and residue are weighed
at 276.227 g.
6. Both the crucible from (3) and the evaporation dish from (5) are placed in a muffle
furnace at 600C for an hour. After cooling, the mass of the crucible is 25.501 g and
the mass of the dish is 275.944 g.
Determine the following:
(a)
The total dissolved solids (filterable residue) (mg/L)
(b)
The total suspended solids (non-filterable residue) (mg/L)
(c)
The total solids (mg/L)
(d)
The organic fraction of the filterable residue (mg/L)
(e)
The organic fraction of the non-filterable residue (mg/L)
SOLUTION:
(a) The total dissolved solids
(TDS)

= Amount of residue in dish/Volume of sample

= (276.227 275.419) g/ 100 mL
= 0.808 g x 1000 mg/g / {100 mL x 1 L/1000 mL}
= 8080 mg/L

(b) The total suspended solids

(TSS)

= Amount of residue in filter paper/Vol. of sample

= (25.645 25.439) g/ 200 mL
= 0.206 g x 1000 mg/g / {200 mL x 1 L/1000 mL}
= 1030 mg/L

(c) The total solids (mg/L)

= TDS + TSS
= 8080.0 + 1030.0
= 9110 mg/L

(d) The organic fraction of the filterable residue

= Amount of residue lost in muffle furnace/Volume sample
= (276.227 275.944) g/ 100 mL
= 0.2830 g x 1000 mg/g / {100 mL x 1 L/1000 mL}
= 2830 mg/L
(e) The organic fraction of the non-filterable residue
= Amount of residue lost in muffle furnace/Volume sample
= (25.645 25.501) g/ 200 mL
= 0.144 g x 1000 mg/g / {200 mL x 1 L/1000 mL}
= 720 mg/L

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Question 3:
The 5-day 20 0C BOD of a wastewater is 190 mg/L. Determine the ultimate oxygen
demand. Assume k1 at 20 0C = 0.25 d-1.
In a BOD determination, 6 mL of wastewater containing no dissolved oxygen is
mixed with 294 mL of dilution water containing 8.6 mg/L of dissolved oxygen. After 5
day incubation at 20 C the dissolved oxygen of the mixture is 5.4 mg/L and that of
the dilution water is 8.5 mg/L. Calculate the 20 0C BOD5 of the wastewater.
SOLUTION:
BOD equation is

BOD t L 0 [1 e
BOD520 L0 [1 e
190.0 L0 [1 e
L0

0.25 x 5

0.25 x 5

k1t

190.0
266 mg / L
[1 e 0.25 x 5]

Hence ultimate oxygen demand = 266.3 mg/L. (Note L0 must be higher than BOD5)
6 mL of wastewater (DO = 0.0 mg/L) is diluted to 300 mL by adding 294 mL of
dilution water (DO = 8.6 mg/L)
Dilution factor

= Final volume / Wastewater added

= 300/6
= 50

At time t = 0 day:

DO of 300 mL diluted wastewater sample = (6x0.0+294x8.6)/300

= 8.428 mg/L
DO of blank (dilution water)
= 8.60 mg/L

At time t = 5 day:

DO of 300 mL diluted wastewater sample = 5.4 mg/L

DO of blank (dilution water)
= 8.50 mg/L

Substituting,

BOD

20
5

(50 1)

(8.428 5.40)

(
8
.
60

8
.
50
)
x 50
sample
blank
50

147 mg/L

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Question 4:
The 5-d 20C BOD of a wastewater is 210 mg/L. What will be the ultimate BOD?
What will be the 10-day BOD? If the sample has been incubated at 30C what would
the 10-day BOD have been (k1 at 20 0C = 0.23 d-1)?
SOLUTION
Ultimate BOD can be calculated from knowing the 5 day BOD using the BOD
equation at 20 0C:

BOD520 L0 [1 e

0.23 x 5

BOD520
210
L0

[1 e 0.23 x 5] [1 e 0.23 x 5]
307.3 mg / L 307 mg / L (3sf )
10 day BOD can be calculated using the ultimate BOD at 20 0C:

BOD1020 L0 [1 e

0.23 x 10

307.3 [1 e 0.23 x 10]

276.5 mg / L 277 mg / L (3sf )
To find10 day BOD at 30 0C, you must calculate the de-oxygenation coefficient k1 at
30 0C:

k1 (T ) k1 (20) (1.047) (T 20 )

k1 (30) k1 (20) (1.047) (30 20 ) 0.23 x 1.04710 0.364 per day

BOD1030 L0 [1 e

0.364 x10

307.3 [1 e

0.364 x10

299.2 mg / L 299 mg / L (3sf )

Question 5:
You are expected to do your own research to find answers to this descriptive
question.
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