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GATE Civil Engineering · Environmental Engineering - Wastewater Treatment · 2018-2026

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2026 Q29

The grown algae are useful in the operation of

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2026 Q63

An Activated Sludge Process (ASP) has an inlet wastewater flowrate of 20000 m³/day with a Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) concentration of 250 mg/l. It produces treated wastewater...

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2025 Q45

A facultative pond system is employed for wastewater treatment. Which of the following statements is/are true:

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2025 Q62

A community generates 1 million litres/day (MLD) of wastewater. This wastewater is treated using activated sludge process (ASP). The working volume of the aeration tank of the ASP...

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2025 PYQ

A facultative pond system is employed for wastewater treatment. Which of the following statements is/are true:

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2025 PYQ

A community generates 1 million litres/day (MLD) of wastewater. This wastewater is treated using activated sludge process (ASP). The working volume of the aeration tank of the ASP...

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2024 Q26

Which one of the following products is NOT obtained in anaerobic decomposition of glucose?

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2024 Q60

A circular settling tank is to be designed for primary treatment of sewage at a flow rate of 10 million liters/day. Assume a detention period of 2.0 hours and surface loading rate...

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2024 Q60

Activated carbon is used to remove a pollutant from wastewater in a mixed batch reactor, which follows first-order reaction kinetics. At a reaction rate of 0.38 /day, the time (in...

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2024 PYQ

Which one of the following products is NOT obtained in anaerobic decomposition of glucose?

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2023 Q48

In the context of water and wastewater treatments, the correct statements are:

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2023 PYQ

In the following table, identify the correct set of associations between the entries in Column - 1 and Column-2. Column-1 Column-2 P: Reverse Osmosis III: Concentration Polarizatio...

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2023 PYQ

The wastewater inflow to an activated sludge plant is 0.5 m 3 /s, and the plant is to be operated with a food to microorganism ratio of 0.2 mg/mg-d. The concentration of influent b...

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2021 Q12

Which one of the following is correct?

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2021 Q51

An activated sludge process (ASP) is designed for secondary treatment of 7500 m³/day of municipal wastewater. After primary clarifier, the ultimate BOD of the influent, which enter...

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2018 Q10

The most important type of species involved in the degradation of organic matter in the case of activated sludge process is

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2018 Q53

The spherical grit particles, having a radius of 0.01 mm and specific gravity of 3.0, need to be separated in a settling chamber. It is given that • g = 9.81 m/s² • the density of...

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2018 Q54

Two wastewater streams A and B, having an identical ultimate BOD are getting mixed to form the stream C. The temperature of the stream A is 20°C and the temperature of the stream C...

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