GATE CE · 2026 · CE
Question 65: Water and Waste Water Quality and Treatment
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Question 65
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The maximum demand at a water purification plant has been estimated as 12 million litres per day. For the raw supplies, a rectangular sedimentation tank is to be designed with mechanical sludge removal arrangement. Consider depth of the tank as 4 m, detention period as 6 hours, and velocity of flow as 0.003 m/s.
The width (in m) of the detention tank is ________ (rounded off to two decimal places).
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2026CE
GATE CE 2026 · Paper 1
Civil Engineering · Original paper archive
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- Civil Engineering
- Question type
- Numerical answer (NAT)
- Marks
- 2 marks
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