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GATE Water and Waste Water Quality and Treatment: Sludge treatment and disposal, reuse of treated sewage – Previous Year Questions

3 GATE previous year questions on Sludge treatment and disposal, reuse of treated sewage (Water and Waste Water Quality and Treatment, Civil Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2024 CE (CE2) Q26 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Which one of the following products is NOT obtained in anaerobic decomposition of glucose?
  2. GATE 2026 CE (CE2) Q28 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – One-third of the solid matter in a sludge containing 90 % water is composed of fixed mineral solids with specific gravity 2.5, and two-third is…
  3. GATE 2026 CE (CE1) Q63 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – An Activated Sludge Process (ASP) has an inlet wastewater flowrate of 20000 m3/day with a Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) concentration of 250 mg/l.…