Dhaka International University

Department of Civil Engineering

Course Details

Course No: CE 333

Course Title: Environmental Engineering II
Course Type: Basic Civil Engineering Course
Credit and Duration: 3.00 Credits & 3.00 hrs/ Week
Course Contents:
Introduction to Environmental pollution; Environmental protection and
management.

Planning and design consideration of water treatment plant; Water treatment:

Sedimentation, coagulation, filtration, disinfection, chemical precipitation,
adsorption, ion exchange, reverse osmosis, etc; Iron and arsenic removal units;
Salinity removal; Water safety plans.

Low cost treatment for rural communities; Water distribution system: design
and construction; Water meter; Leak detection; Unaccounted for water; Socio-
economic aspects of WSS: concept of community participation and
participatory planning.

Microbiology of sewage and wastewater; Wastewater characteristics;

Introduction to aerobic and anaerobic treatment of wastewater; Self purification
of stream: DO kinetics; BOD removal kinetics; Preliminary, primary and
secondary treatment methods and disposal; Treatment and disposal of industrial
effluent; Sludge treatment and disposal.
Sanitation for low income communities: On-site sanitation for rural
communities; Low cost small bore sewage for townships; Design and
construction of septic tanks, soak wells and subsurface drain fields; Rural
sanitation in Bangladesh.

Sustainability of WSS services; Participatory development approach in WSS

sector.

Faculty & Course Details:

Faculty Detail Prof. Dr. Ganesh Chandra Saha

Advisor, Department of Civil
Engineering
Course Code CE 333
Course Title Environmental Engineering II
Lecture For Day Shift
Number of Lectures 24
Class Day & Time According to Routine
Teaching Methodology Class room lecture, multimedia
presentation, discussion, group study,
assignment, presentation, etc.
Reference Books:
1) Water Supply & Sanitation (2nd Edition, 1974)-M. Feroze
Ahmed, Md. MujiburRahman (ITN Bangladesh)
2) Environmental Engineering (1985)-Howard Peavy, Rowe,
Tchobanoglous (McGraw-Hill Book Company)
3) Sewage Treatment in Hot Climates (1976)-Duncan Mara (John
Wiley & Sons, London)
4) Water Supply & Sewerage (November 1990)-Terence McGhee.
E. W. Steel (McGraw-Hill Int’1 Edition)
5) Water & Waste Water Treatment (4th Edition)-Mark J. Hammer
(Prentice-Hall of India Pvt. Ltd)
6) Waste Water Engineering: Treatment, Disposal, Reuse (3rd
Edition)-Metcalf & Eddy, Inc. (McGraw-Hill Inc.)
7) Plumbing & Heating-William J. Hornung (Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Newjersy)
8) Plumbing-Harold E. Babbitt (McGraw-Hill Book Company)

Evaluation Method:

Category Marks
Class Attendance 10
Class Test 10
Assignment 10
Mid-term 20
Final 50
Total 100

Lecture Planning :

Lecture Topic
Details
No.
Environmental
 Introduction
pollution, Protection  Environmental pollution
01
and Management  Protection
 Environment management
 Introduction
 Water treatment method
 Plain sedimentation
02
Water Treatment  Coagulation and flocculation
 Common coagulants
 Filtration
 Theories of filtration
  Roughing filtration
 Slow sand filtration
03
Water Treatment  Rapid sand filtration
 Disinfection
 Problem solve
 Introduction
 Classification of transmission
04 Water distribution and distribution
system  Water meter
 Distribution networks
 Design consideration
 Service connections

05 Review Class

 Essential Microbiology
Microbiology of  Bacteria, Pathogenic
06 Sewage and Bacteria,Coliform
Wastewater Bacteria,Bacterial
Growth(µ=Ln2/2),Batch Culture
Curve

 Composition of Sewage,
 Characterization of sewage
Wastewater
07  TOD
Characteristics  COD,
 BOD, COD>BOD

 Wastewater Management,
Performance Criteria for Waste
Introduction to Water Management System,
08 Aerobic and
Anaerobic Treatment  Biloogical Oxidation
of Wastewater;  Aerobic Oxidation,
 Anaerobic Oxidations
 Surface Water Pollution, Self-
Purification Of River, Effluent
Discharged Into River,
09 Self-purification of  First Order Kinetics(L=L0e-Kt),
stream: DO kinetics; Continuous Flow Processess,
Temperature
10 Review Class
  Physical, chemical, biological
treatment
11 Waste Water
Treatment  Unit Operations, Unit Processes,
Objectives of Sewage Treatment,
Wastewater Treatment Methods,
Typical Flow Diagram of A
Sewage Treatment Plant
 Screening, Comminuting, Grit
12 Preliminary treatment Removal(Examples), Constant
Velocity Grit Channels(X= )
 Primary Sedimentation Tank,
 Design Criteria of Primary
13 Primary treatment Sedimentation Tank
 Rectangular Tank,
 Circular Tank(Examples),
 Quantities Of Sludge ,
 Inhoff Tank, Septic Tank
 Objectives of Secondary
Treatment of Wastewater
14 Secondary treatment
 Suspended growth processes
Treatment:

 Attached growth processes

15 Review Class
 Fundamental Components of
Activated Sludge Process,
 Volumetric Loading,
16 Secondary treatment  Mixed Liquor Suspended
Solid(Mlss),
 Sludge Return Ratio(Srr),
 Food Micro-Organism
Ratio(F/M Ratio),
 Sludge Volume Index(Svi)
 Design Of Reactor(Examples)
  Advantages of Waste
Stabilization Pond,
 Process Description,
 Process
Microbiology(Symbiosis),
 Anaerobic Pond(Precautions,
 Design Criteria, Examples),
17 Secondary treatment  Facultativ Pond (Process
Description,
 Design Assumption,
 Mass Balance Equation,
Examples)
 Maturation Pond(Formula &
Examples)
 Collection Point of Sludge,
 Sludge Characteristics,
18 Sludge Treatment and  Effect of Moisture Content of
Disposal. Sludge,
 Methods of Sludge Treatment
and Disposal(Digestion in
Heated Tank)
 On-site sanitation systems are of
different kinds. They may be:
 Simple Pit Latrine
 Ventilated Improved Pit (VIP)
Latrine
19-20 Sanitation for low  Reed Odorless Earth Closet
income communities (ROEC)
 Compost Latrine
 Pour-Flush Sanitation
Technology
 Aqua Privy
 Septic Tank System
 Communal Sanitation System
 The user community
 The community
 Community involvement
21 Socio-Economic
 Community management
Aspects of WSS:  The management perspective
 Different levels of management
involvement
  Institutional aspects
 The need for institutional
22 Socio-Economic changes
Aspects of WSS:  The actors
 Principles and policies
 Future roles of the actors

 Gender awareness
 Gender approach
 Applying gender approach in the
23 Socio-Economic
project
Aspects of WSS:  Health and hygiene
 Transmission routes of water
related diseases
 Preventive measures
24 Review Class
Total 24 lectures