A stream containing 5.15 wt% chromium, Cr, is contained in the wastewater from a metal finishing plant. The wastewater stream is fed to a treatment unit that removes 95% of the chromium in the feed and recycles it to the plant. The residual liquid stream leaving the treatment unit is sent to a waste lagoon. The treatment unit has a maximum capacity of 4500kg wastewater/h. If wastewater leaves the finishing plant at a rate higher than the capacity of the treatment unit, the excess (anything above 4500 kg/h) bypasses the unit and combines with the liquid leaving the unit, and the combined streams goes to the waste lagoon. If wastewater leaves the finishing plant at a rate of 6000 kg/h, calculate the flow rate of liquidto the waste lagoon (kg/h) and the mass fraction of Cr in the liquid (kg Cr/kg).
A stream containing 5.15 wt% chromium, Cr, is contained in the wastewater from a metal finishing plant. The wastewater stream is fed to a treatment unit that removes 95% of the chromium in the feed and recycles it to the plant. The residual liquid stream leaving the treatment unit is sent to a waste lagoon. The treatment unit has a maximum capacity of 4500
kg wastewater/h. If wastewater leaves the finishing plant at a rate higher than the capacity of the treatment unit, the excess (anything above 4500 kg/h) bypasses the unit and combines with the liquid leaving the unit, and the combined streams goes to the waste lagoon. If wastewater leaves the finishing plant at a rate of 6000 kg/h, calculate the flow rate of liquid
to the waste lagoon (kg/h) and the mass fraction of Cr in the liquid (kg Cr/kg).
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