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16-Civ-A3 Elementary Environmental Engineering

Worked solutions to 12 past sittings (2014–2019), 82 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.

Topics across the sittings

Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.

Questions by sitting

December 2019

  1. Question 1: Short-answer concepts
  2. Question 2: Pump characteristic curves
  3. Question 3: Peak discharge in an urban stormwater system
  4. Question 4: Pipe network with two reservoirs (Hardy Cross)
  5. Question 5: Sanitary sewer trunk design

December 2018

  1. Question 1: Material Balances, Reaction Kinetics and Microbiology
  2. Question 2: Impact Assessment, Sustainable Development and Ethics
  3. Question 3: Particles, Gaseous Emissions and Solution Chemistry
  4. Question 4: Growth Drivers of Environmental Pollution
  5. Question 5: Water and Wastewater Treatment Configurations
  6. Question 6: Air Pollution Control and Solid Waste Management
  7. Question 7: Water Resources Management

May 2018

  1. Question 1: Air Pollution Control and Water Treatment
  2. Question 2: Water-Resource Management and Toxic Gases
  3. Question 3: Environmental Impact Assessment, Sustainable Development and Ethics
  4. Question 4: Material Balances, Reaction Kinetics and Microbiology
  5. Question 5: Growth, Industrialization, Urbanization and Energy Use
  6. Question 6: Wastewater Treatment and Solid-Waste Management
  7. Question 7: Particle Characteristics and Chemistry of Solutions

December 2017

  1. Question 1: Material Balances, Reaction Kinetics and Microbiology
  2. Question 2: Impact Assessment, Sustainable Development and Ethics
  3. Question 3: Particle Characteristics, Solution Chemistry and Emissions
  4. Question 4: Growth, Industrialization and Urbanization Impacts
  5. Question 5: Environmental Principles in Water and Wastewater Treatment
  6. Question 6: Air Pollution Control and Solid Waste Management
  7. Question 7: Water Resource Management

May 2017

  1. Question 1: Material Balances, Reaction Kinetics and Microbiology
  2. Question 2: Environmental Impact Assessment, Sustainable Development and Ethics
  3. Question 3: Particle Characteristics, Solution Chemistry and Gaseous Emissions
  4. Question 4: Growth, Industrialization and Energy Use as Causes of Pollution
  5. Question 5: Water and Wastewater Treatment Strategies
  6. Question 6: Air Pollution Control and Solid Waste Management
  7. Question 7: Water Resource Management

December 2016

  1. Question 1
  2. Question 2: Particle Characteristics, Solution Chemistry and Gases
  3. Question 3: Population Growth, Economic Growth and Urban Sprawl
  4. Question 4: Air Pollution Control and Solid Waste Management
  5. Question 5: Environmental Ethics and Energy Use
  6. Question 6: Sustainable Development and Environmental Impact Assessment
  7. Question 7: Water Resources, Water Treatment and Wastewater Treatment

May 2016

  1. Question 1: Material Balance, Reaction Kinetics and Microbiology
  2. Question 2: Particle Characteristics, Solution Chemistry and Gases
  3. Question 3: Population Growth, Economic Growth and Urban Sprawl
  4. Question 4: Environmental Impact Assessment and Sustainable Development
  5. Question 5: Environmental Ethics and Energy Use
  6. Question 6: Air Pollution Control and Solid Waste Management
  7. Question 7: Water Resources, Water Treatment and Wastewater Treatment

December 2015

  1. Question 1: Microbiology, reaction kinetics and material balance
  2. Question 2: Particle characteristics, chemistry of solutions and gases
  3. Question 3: Urbanization, energy use and industrialization as causes of pollution
  4. Question 4: Environmental ethics and surface water treatment
  5. Question 5: Air pollution control and solid waste management
  6. Question 6: Environmental impact assessment and sustainable development
  7. Question 7: Water resource management, water treatment and wastewater treatment

May 2015

  1. Question 1: Material balance, reaction kinetics and microbiology
  2. Question 2: Particle characteristics, chemistry of solutions and gases
  3. Question 3: Urbanization, energy use and industrialization as causes of pollution
  4. Question 4: Environmental ethics and wastewater
  5. Question 5: Air pollution control and solid waste management
  6. Question 6: Environmental impact assessment and sustainable development
  7. Question 7: Water resource management, water treatment and wastewater treatment

December 2014

  1. Question 1: Material Balance, Reaction Kinetics and Microbiology
  2. Question 2: Particle Characteristics, Solution Chemistry and Gases
  3. Question 3: Urbanization, Energy Use and Industrialization
  4. Question 4: Environmental Ethics and Wastewater
  5. Question 5: Air Pollution Control and Solid Waste Management
  6. Question 6: Environmental Impact Assessment and Sustainable Development
  7. Question 7: Water Resource Management, Water and Wastewater Treatment

May 2014

  1. Question 1: Material Balance, Reaction Kinetics and Microbiology
  2. Question 2: Particle Characteristics, Solution Chemistry and Gases
  3. Question 3: Population Growth, Economic Growth and Urban Sprawl
  4. Question 4: Environmental Ethics and Energy Use
  5. Question 5: Air Pollution Control and Solid Waste Management
  6. Question 6: Environmental Impact Assessment and Sustainable Development
  7. Question 7: Water Resource Management, Water Treatment and Wastewater Treatment

Undated paper

  1. Question 1: Contaminant Dilution, Reactor Kinetics & Disinfection
  2. Question 2: Environmental Impact, Ethics & Sustainable Development
  3. Question 3: Particles, Odour Control & Water Hardness
  4. Question 4: Growth Drivers — Impacts & Engineering Solutions
  5. Question 5: Water- & Wastewater-Treatment Plant Configurations
  6. Question 6: Air-Pollution Control & Solid-Waste Management
  7. Question 7: Source-Water Protection & Integrated “One Water” Management