A small lake with olume m3 has a stream flowing into it with flow rate 100 m3/day and a Toluene concentration of 1.0 mg/m3. A factory discharges 5 m3/
A small lake with olume m3 has a stream flowing into it with flow rate 100 m3/day and a Toluene concentration of 1.0 mg/m3. A factory discharges 5 m3/
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Transcribed Image Text:A small lake with volume 10,000 m3
has a stream flowing into it with flow
rate 100 m3/day
and a Toluene concentration of 1.0
mg/m3. A factory discharges 5 m3/
day into the lake with
Toluene concentration of 10 mg/m3 -
they want to increase effluent to 50
mg/m3. Toluene
decays at a rate of 0.01 day-1.
Assume steady-state and completely
mixed (CSTR).
a) How would this increase in
discharge concentration change the
lake concentration?
Answer: 0.73 mg/m3 before, 1.71 mg/
m3 after
b) Field studies show that the same
lake would be better represented by
dividing the lake
into two cells. The first cell having a
volume of 2,500m3 and the second
with 7,500m3.
How does this affect the estimate of
concentration leaving the lake?
Compare with one-
cell model.
Assume the factory continues to
discharge at 10 mg/m3 into the first
cell.
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