09/01/2014 TIME: 1 Hour

MOCK GATE SERIES-3

MARK: 40

Environmental and Water Resources Engineering

* Calculator is allowed whereas charts, graph sheets or tables are NOT allowed in the examination hall. * Rough work can be done on the blank pages provided separately with the question paper. * Before the start of the examination, write your name and roll number in the space provided in answer Sheet using a black/blue ink ball point pen.
1 Mark Questions

1) If average daily consumption of a city is 1, 00,000 m3. Then maximum daily consumption on peak hourly demand will be a) 100000 m3 c) 150000 m3 b) 150000 m3 d) 270000 m3 2) The process in which chlorination is done beyond the break point is called a) Pre chlorination c) Super chlorination b) Post chlorination d) Break point chlorination 3) Which of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched? Type of filter Rate of filtration (l/m2/hr.) a) Slow sand filter 100-200 b) Rapid sand filter 3000-6000 c) Double media filter 25000-30000 d) Pressure filter 6000-15000 4) The purpose of providing a balancing reservoir in a water supply distribution system is a) Equalize pressure in the distribution system b) Store adequate quantity of water to meet requirement in case of breakdown of inflow c) Store adequate fire fighting reserve d) Take care of fluctuations in the rate of consumption 5) Looping occurs when a) Vertical temperature gradient is Super Adiabatic and air is turbulent b) Vertical temperature gradient is Super Adiabatic but less than isothermal c) Temperature gradient is positive d) All of these 6) Electrostatic precipitator is a device to control a) SO2 emission b) Particulate emission c) Both SO2 and particulate emission d) Precipitation of Al(OH)3 in water coagulation
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In order to prepare 2 hour unit hydrograph from a 6 hour unit hydrograph which of the following method will be adopted a) Synthetic unit hydrograph b) S- Curve method c) Instantaneous unit hydrograph d) Simple unit hydrograph 8) The rainfall in four successive 12 hours period on catchment are 4, 8, 9 and 3 cm. In infiltration index for the storm is 0.5cm/hr. then total surface runoff will be a) 0 b)5cm c)12cm d)18cm 9) Performance of a well is measured by a) Specific capacity b) Specific yield c) Storage coefficient d) All of these 10) Water in an unconfined well a) Increase with the increase in the atmospheric pressure b) Decrease with the increase in the atmospheric pressure c) Does not undergo any change with the change in the atmospheric pressure d) all of these 11) Most accurate method for estimating mean rainfall over a catchment is a) Arithmetic mean method b) Theissens polygon method c) Isohyetal method d) Unit hydrograph method 12) If the average numerical deviation in the depth of water stored is 8cm and average depth of water stored in root zone is 24cm , then water distribution efficiency is a) 33.33% b) 50% c) 75% d) 66.67% 13) A channel designed by Laceys theory has a mean velocity 1m/s. If silt factor is unity , then hydrauli c mean radius will be a) 1.5m b) 2 m c) 2.5m d) 1m 14) The stage-discharge relation in a river during the passage of flood is measure. If qf is the discharge at stage when water surface is falling and qr is the discharge at the same stage when water surface is raising, then (a) qf = qr (b) qf < qr (c) qf > qr (d) qf/qr = constant Two Mark Questions 15) If the total hardness and alkalinity of a sample of water are 300 mg/l and 100 mg/l ( CaCO3 scale) respectively, then its carbonate and non-carbonate hardness in units of mg/l will be respectively a) 100 and 200 c) 100 and 400 b) 400 and 300 d) 400 and 0 16) Hardy Cross method of hydraulic analysis of pipe networks, besides satisfying continuity and energy principles, must also satisfy the condition that a) algebraic sum of the head losses around any closed loop is zero b) flow in to any junction equals the outflow from it c) flow in each pipe has head loss according to Darcy-Weisbach or any other pipe head loss equation d) momentum principle is followed

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17) A circular primary clarifier processes an average flow of 5005 m3 per day of municipal waste water. The overflow rate is 35 m3 per m2 day. The diameter of the clarifier shall be a) 10.5 m c) 12.5 m b) 11.5 m d) 13.5 m 18) Rain gauge station X did not function for a part of a month during which a storm occurred. The storm produced rainfalls of 84, 70 and 76 mm at three surrounding stations A, B and C respectively. The normal annual rainfalls at the station X, A, B and C are respectively 770, 882, 736 and 994mm. The missing storm rainfall at station X will be a) 70 mm b) 75 mm c) 80mm d) 95 mm 19) For laminar flow in a pipe of circular cross-section, the Darcys friction factor f is a) Directly proportional to Reynolds number and independent of pipe wall roughness b) Directly proportional to pipe wall roughness and independent of Reynolds number c) Inversely proportional to Reynolds number and directly proportional to pipe wall roughness d) None of the above 20) For two dimensional irrational flow the velocity potential is defined as = ln (x2 + y2). Which of the following is possible stream function, , for this flow for x=0 and y=3 a) 0 c) 3.21 b) 6.28 d) 21) A thin flat plate 0.5 x 0.7 in size settles in a large tank of water with a terminal velocity of 0.12 m/s. coefficient of drag CD = layer, where RL is plate Reynolds number. Assume = 10-3 N-s/m2 and

for a laminar boundary layer and CD = 0.072/(RL)1/5 for a turbulent boundary kg/m3.

V = 0.12m/s 0.5m
The submerge weight of the plate is a) 0.0115 b) 0.0118 Common Data Q. (22-24)

0.7m

c) 0.0231

d)0.0376

A very wide rectangular channel carries a discharge of 8 m3/s per m width. The channel has a bed slope of 0.004 and mannings roughness coefficient, n = 0.015. At certain section of the channel, the flow depth is 1m. 22) What gradually varied flow profile exist at this section? a) M2 b) S2 b) M3 d) S3 23) T which distances from the section the flow depth will be 0.9 m? (Use direct step method employing a single step) a) 65m downstream b) -50 m downstream c) 50 m downstream d) -65m downstream

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24) Velocity distribution in a boundary layer flow over a plate is given by Where, = y/ Y is the distance measured normal to the plate Is the boundary layer thickness; and um is maximum velocity at y= given by K (um)/ Where is dynamic viscosity of fluid, then K takes the value of: a) b) c) d) 0 1 1.5 None of the above

= 1.5 0.53

if shear stress , acting on the plate is

25) A portion of waste water sample was subjected to Standard BOD test (5 days, 20 deg Celsius) yielding a value of 180 mg/L. The reaction rate constant (to the base e) at 20 deg Celsius was taken as 0.18 per day. The reaction rate constant at other temperature may be estimated by KT = K20 (1.047) T-20. The temperature at which the other portion of the sample should be tested, to exert the same BOD in 2.5 days is a) 4.9 deg C b) 24.9 deg C c) 31.7 deg C d) 35.0 deg 26) A waste water sample has an initial BOD of 222 mg/L. The first order BOD decay coefficient is 0.4 per day. The BOD consumed in mg/L in 5 days is a) 150 b) 192 c) 30 d) 50 27) Consider the following statements: 1) Carbon monoxide combines with hemoglobin of blood and reduces the capability of the blood to carry oxygen. 2) Aliphatic hydrocarbons concentration of up to 500 ppm produce no harmful effect on humans. Of the above statements a) Only 1 is correct b) Only 2 is correct c) Both 1 and 2 are correct d) None is correct

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