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Environmental Engineering - I (BTCE-505)

Internal Marks: 40
External Marks: 60
Total Marks: 100

1. Introduction: Beneficial uses of water, water demand, per capita demand, variations in
demand, water demand for fire fighting, population forecasting and water demand estimation.
2. Water sources and development: Surface and ground water sources; Selection and
development of sources; Assessment of potential; Flow measurement in closed pipes, intakes and
transmission systems.
3. Pumps and pumping stations: Types of pumps and their characteristics and efficiencies;
Pump operating curves and selection of pumps; pumping stations.
4. Quality and Examination of Water: Impurities in water, sampling of water, physical,
chemical and bacteriological water quality parameters, drinking water quality standards and
criteria.
5. Water treatment: Water treatment schemes; Basic principles of water treatment; Design of
plain sedimentation, coagulation and flocculation, filtration – slow, rapid and pressure;
Disinfection units; Fundamentals of water softening, fluoridation and deflouridation, and water
desalination and demineralization, taste and odour removal.
6. Transportation of Water: Pipes for transporting water and their design, water distribution
systems and appurtenances; Water supply network design and design of balancing and service
reservoirs; operation and maintenance of water supply systems.
7. Rural water supply: Principles, selection of source, rain water harvesting, quantitative
requirements, low cost treatment techniques.

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