In: Civil Engineering
The city of Stillwater is planning to install a new settling tank as an upgrade to their existing water treat plant. You run a batch settling test using a 2.0 m column and coagulated water from their existing tank and collect the following data (Table 1). Using this data, design a settling tank to remove 65% of the influent suspended solids. Assume a design flow of 0.5 m3/s. Use scale up factors of 0.65 for overflow rate and 1.75 for detention time (Eckenfelder 1980). Discuss your results.
Table 1. Percent suspended solids removal as a function of time and depth.
Sampling time (min) |
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Depth (m) |
5 |
10 |
20 |
40 |
60 |
90 |
120 |
0.5 |
41 |
50 |
60 |
67 |
72 |
73 |
76 |
1.0 |
19 |
33 |
45 |
58 |
62 |
70 |
74 |
2.0 |
15 |
31 |
38 |
54 |
59 |
63 |
71 |
STEP 1 = CALCULATING THE ALL VELOCITY ACCORDING TO THEIR DISCHARGE
CALCULATION OF WATER TREATMANT PLANT