Wastewater containing lead is being released from a certain industrial plant. The stream contains 3.54 % Pb and is treated in a unit (maximum capacity = 5000 kg wastewater/hr) that removes 90% of lead in the feed, which is then recycled back into the plant. Another stream from the unit is being released to a lagoon. If the stream leaving the plant has a rate greater than that of the treatment unit. the excess of the capacity of the unit (say, the excess above 5000 kg/hr) bypasses the unit. This excess is combined with the liquid leaving the treatment unit, which is released into the lagoon. The treatment plant releases 7500 kg/hr of wastewater. Determine the flow rate of the liquid to the waste lagoon.

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Wastewater containing lead is being released from a certain industrial plant. The stream contains 3.54 % Pb and is treated in a unit (maximum capacity = 5000 kg wastewater/hr) that removes 90% of lead in the feed, which is then recycled back into the plant. Another stream from the unit is being released to a lagoon. If the stream leaving the plant has a rate greater than that of the treatment unit. the excess of the capacity of the unit (say, the excess above 5000 kg/hr) bypasses the unit. This excess is combined with the liquid leaving the treatment unit, which is released into the lagoon. The treatment plant releases 7500 kg/hr of wastewater.

Determine the flow rate of the liquid to the waste lagoon.

 

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