Group academic project

Design of a sewerage system for part of Khulna City Corporation

A field-informed design exercise for Sheikhpara, Khulna, combining hand calculations with SewerGEMS network modeling and selected wastewater-treatment unit design.

CE 4240 · Environmental Engineering IIISheikhpara, KhulnaField visit · hand calculation · SewerGEMS

From site observation to network layout

The group project focused on a densely populated section of Sheikhpara in Khulna. The workflow began with site observation and location mapping, then translated the local road/settlement context into a sewer-network layout suitable for hydraulic design.

Project site map in Sheikhpara, Khulna
Project site/location mapping from the group presentation.
Field visit for sewerage design project
Field visit conducted as part of the project.

Hand calculations + SewerGEMS model

The network was first developed through hand calculations and then represented in SewerGEMS. The digital model provided a way to inspect the complete network and elevation profile rather than treating each reach independently.

Sewer network modeled in SewerGEMS
Sewer network representation from the project.
Sewer network elevation profile
Elevation profile used to inspect network hydraulics and alignment.
Tools demonstrated: field interpretation, network layout, hydraulic calculation and SewerGEMS modeling. The source presentation lists me as one of five members of Group 10.

Selected treatment-unit design

The project extended beyond collection-network layout to selected treatment units, including a sedimentation tank and trickling filter. The trickling-filter design example used a hydraulic flow of 2,600 m³/day, influent BOD₅ of 150 mg/L and target effluent BOD₅ of 12 mg/L, corresponding to a nominal removal efficiency of about 92% in the presentation calculations.

The presentation also includes reinforced-concrete detailing calculations for treatment structures, linking process design with structural detailing.

Treatment tank reinforcement detail
Example structural detail included in the treatment-unit design work.

Project scope & role framing

This was a group academic project, not an individual research publication. I therefore present it as evidence of applied environmental-engineering design experience rather than as an independent research contribution. The source presentation identifies the team members and documents the shared site, network and treatment-design work.

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