As a process engineer, you are designing sedimentation tanks for a new drinking water treatment plant using a conventional treatment process. The design flow is 0.50 m³/s. The major target of the WTP is to remove Turbidity from water using alum as coagulant with a design overflow rate VO = 40 m^3/m^2.d. The detention time >= 4.5 hrs and number of sedimentation tanks, N=2. 1 day = 86,400 s L = Vwater x 0 in m, if water horizontal movement velocity is 2.0 The length, L, is mm/s. 1) 62.4 O2) 52.4 3) 42.4 4) 22.4 5) 32.4

As a process engineer, you are designing sedimentation tanks for a new drinking water treatment plant using a conventional treatment process. The design flow is 0.50 m³/s. The major target of the WTP is to remove Turbidity from water using alum as coagulant with a design overflow rate VO = 40 m^3/m^2.d. The detention time >= 4.5 hrs and number of sedimentation tanks, N=2. 1 day = 86,400 s L = Vwater x 0 in m, if water horizontal movement velocity is 2.0 The length, L, is mm/s. 1) 62.4 O2) 52.4 3) 42.4 4) 22.4 5) 32.4

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