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Course Name: Water Treatment (CEng 4172) Target Group: Civil 4th year
Example 1
Design a bell mouth intake for a city of 80,000 persons drawing water from a channel which
runs for 10hrs in a day with depth of 1.8m. Also calculate the head loss in intake conduit if
the treatment plant is 0.5 km away and draw a net sketch of the canal intake assume average
consumption per person is 150L/day
Assume the velocity through the screen & the bell mouth to be less than 16cm/s & 32cm/s
respectively.
td=4hr =240min
Chlorine usage in the treatment of 20,000cubic meter per day is 8kg/day. The residual after
10minute contact is 0.20mg/l. calculate the dosage in milligrams per litre and chlorine
demand of the water.