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1. In one page, describe the role and scope of environmental engineering in your
own profession (e.g., Electrical engineering, Computer Science, Computer
Engineering).
2. Which indicators have improved in the last ten years? Give some
possible reasons.
3. Which indicators have worsened in the last ten years? Give some
possible reasons.
1. 12200
2. 12200.0
3. 0.003040
4. 1.34× 105
7. Convert the following concentration in to g/m 3 (a) 500 ppm (b) 0.08 ppm.
Assume that the density of the solution is 1 kg/L.
8. Per capita water consumption in Kathmandu Valley is 180 liters per day.
Estimate the quantity of wastewater being discharged to Bagmati river in (a)
MLD and (b) m 3 /s (c) crore lpd, assuming 25% of the wastewater is lost by
evaporation and population of Kathmandu to be 9 million.
9. Estimate the volume of snow in the Mountains of Nepal. Assume that 17% of
the surface area of Nepal is covered by snow and average depth of snow is 1 m.
Report the figure in appropriate unit.
10. Estimate the rural and urban water demand in your home district. Assume that
the rural and urban water demands are: 45 lpcd and 120 lpcd.
12. A power plant emits 80 kg of flyash per hour up the stack. The flow rate of the
hot gases in the stack is 850 L/s. What is the concentration of the flyash in
𝜇g/m 3 ?
13. (a) How much milk is consumed in Nepal everyday? (Make reasonable
assumptions). (b) One gram of table salt is put into a glass of 400 mL. What is
the concentration of salt in mg/L ?
14. What is the concentration in (a) ppm 𝑣 and (b) percent by volume of carbon
monoxide with a concentration of 103 𝜇g/m 3 ? Assume a temperature of 25
∘
C and pressure of 1 atm.
15. Formaldehyde is commonly found in the indoor air of improperly designed and
constructed buildings. If the concentration of formaldehyde in a home is 0.7
ppm 𝑣 and the inside volume is 800 m 3 , what mass (in grams) of
formaldehyde vapor is inside the home? Assume 𝑇 = 298 K and 𝑃 = 1 atm. The
molecular weight of formaldehyde is 30.
4. A stream flowing at 10.0 m 3 /s has a tributary feeding into it with a flow 5.0
m 3 /s. The stream’s concentration of chlorides upstream of the junction is
10.0 mg/L and the tributary chloride concentration is 40.0 mg/L. Treating
chlorides as a conservative substance, and assuming completely mixing of the
two streams, find the downstream chloride concentration.
8. A stream, (shown in the following figure) flowing at 150 L/s and 20 mg/L
suspended solids, receives wastewater from three separate sources:
What are the flow and suspended solids concentration downstream at the
sampling point?
10. For the following conditions, determine whether a CMFR or a PFR is more
efficient in removing a reactive compound from the waste stream under steady-
state conditions with a first-order reaction: reaction volume = 280 m 3 , flow
rate = 14 m 3 /d, and reaction rate coefficient = 0.05 d −1 .