Subject Code: CE3L006 Subject Name: Water and Wastewater Engineering L-T-P: 3-1-0 Credit:  4
Pre-requisite(s): None
General requirement for water supply, population forecasting and water demand, sources, intake, pumping and transportation of water; Physical, chemical and biological characteristics of water and their significance, Water quality criteria, Water borne diseases, Natural purification of water sources. Engineered systems for water treatment: aeration, sedimentation, softening, coagulation, filtration, adsorption, ion exchange, and disinfection. Generation and collection of wastewater, quantities of sanitary wastes and storm water. Design of sewerage system Primary, secondary and tertiary treatment of wastewater; Wastewater disposal standards. Basics of microbiology. Biological wastewater treatment systems: Aerobic processes - activated sludge process and its modifications, trickling filter, RBC, Anaerobic Processes- conventional anaerobic digester, High rate and hybrid anaerobic reactors. Sludge digestion and handling. Disposal of effluent and sludge Design problems on water and wastewater treatment units and sludge digestion.
  Text/Reference Books:
  1. Peavy H.S., Rowe D.R. and Tchobanoglous G.Environmental Engineering, McGraw-Hill International Ed.
  2. McGhee T.JWater Supply and Sewerage, McGraw-Hill Inc.
  3. Davis M.L and Cornwell D.A.Introduction to Environmental Engineering, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
  4. Metcalf & Eddy,Wastewater Engineering- Treatment and Reuse (Revised by G. Tchobanoglous, F.L. Burton and H.D. Stensel), Tata McGraw Hill.
  5. Sawyer C.N., McCarty P.L. and Parkin G.F.Chemistry for Environmental Engineers, McGraw-Hill.
  6. APHA, Standard Methods Examination of Water and Wastewater, American Public Health Association, Washington DC.
  7. Manual for Sewer and Sewerage, Central Public Health & Environmental Engineering Organisation, Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Govt. of India.
  8. Manual for water supply and treatment, Central Public Health & Environmental Engineering Organisation, Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Govt. of India.