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  • Question
  • Pick up the incorrect statement from the following for allowing workers to enter sewers


  • Options
  • A. The particular manhole and one manhole on up stream and one manhole on down stream should remain open for 30 minutes
  • B. Proper tests for the presence of poisonous gases must be carried out
  • C. The men entering the manhole should be advised to smoke in the sewer
  • D. Warning signals should be erected
  • E. None of these.

  • Correct Answer
  • The men entering the manhole should be advised to smoke in the sewer 


  • Waste Water Engineering problems


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    • 1. The formula which accepts the value of rugosity coefficient n = 0.012 to be used in Manning's formula, is given by

    • Options
    • A. Bazin
    • B. Crimp and Bruge
    • C. William-Hazen
    • D. Kutter.
    • Discuss
    • 2. If a 2% solution of sewage sample is incubated for 5 days at 20°C and the dissolved oxygen depletion was found to be 8 mg/l. The BOD of the sewage is

    • Options
    • A. 100 mg/l
    • B. 200 mg/l
    • C. 300 mg/l
    • D. 400 mg/l.
    • Discuss
    • 3. The most efficient cross section of sewers in a separate sewerage system is

    • Options
    • A. parabolic
    • B. circular
    • C. rectangular
    • D. new egged.
    • Discuss
    • 4. The formula used for determining flow velocities in sewers, is known as

    • Options
    • A. Chezy's formula
    • B. Bazin's formula
    • C. Kutter's formula
    • D. Manning's formula.
    • Discuss
    • 5. The rate of accumulation of sludge per person per year, is

    • Options
    • A. 10 litres
    • B. 15 litres
    • C. 20 litres
    • D. 25 litres
    • E. 30 litres.
    • Discuss
    • 6. In a grit chamber of a sewage treatment plant,

    • Options
    • A. flow velocity 0.15 m to 0.3 m/sec is kept
    • B. depth of 0.9 m to 1.20 m is kept
    • C. one minute of detention period is kept
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 7. The quantity of liquid waste which flows in sewers during the period of rainfall, is known

    • Options
    • A. sanitary sewage
    • B. industrial waste
    • C. storm sewage
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 8. For detecting the nitrates in sewage, the colour may be developed by adding

    • Options
    • A. Pottassium permanganate
    • B. Sulphuric acid and napthamine
    • C. Phenol-di-sulphuric acid and pottassium hydroxide
    • D. None of these.
    • Discuss
    • 9. The value of Chezy's constant

      is used in

    • Options
    • A. Chezy's formula
    • B. Bazin's formula
    • C. Kutter's formula
    • D. Manning's formula.
    • Discuss
    • 10. 1000 kg of sewage contains

    • Options
    • A. 0.112 kg in suspension
    • B. 0.112 kg in solution
    • C. 0.225 kg in solution
    • D. 0.450 kg in suspension
    • E. both (a) and (c) of above.
    • Discuss


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