1-6. Įn a biological waste treatment system, solids may enter (b) Solids decay in the reactor at a rate equal to kaX, in the influent, be created or destroyed by biological equal to VL/QL) necessary to reduce the concen- amount of time that water resides in the reactor, where ka is the decay rate constant. Write a mass growth or decay, and may leave in the effluent. Con- tration of substrate to 3 mg DOC/L in a complete balance on VSS and compute the value of kd. sider a waste treatment plant treating 1 m3/s of influent containing 55 mg/L of degradable organic solids. The wastewater also contains 180 mg/L of die solved organic carbon (DOC), which For every gram of dissolved organic matter that is degraded, the overall reaction converts a portion of the material into CO2 and H2O, and another portion into 0.4 g of new biomass. Analytically, this biomass and the degradable solids in the influent are both quantified as volatile suspended solids (VSS); that is, the degradable solids in the influent and the new biomass that grows in the reactor are indistinguishable from one another. may be degraded. (a) In a particular system, the dissolved organic matter (i.e., the substrate, S) is removed from solution at an overall rate (including both the conversion into CO2 and into Is = -k,S-X/(S² + K,), where X is the VSS con- centration in the reactor. The values of k1, K, and X in the reactor of interest are &8 mg DOC/mg VS d, 110 (mg DOC/L)², and 120 mg VSS/L, respec- tively. Write a mass balance and compute ue hydraulic detention time, t (i.e., the average new cells) given by mix reactor operating at steady state.

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1-6. In a biological waste treatment system, solids may enter
(b) Solids decay in the reactor at a rate equal to kaX,
in the influent, be created or destroyed by biological
inorganic carbon (TIC), and
state concentrations of these species.
tration of substrate to 3 mg DOC/L in a complete
where ka is the decay rate constant. Write a mass
equal to VL/QL) necessary to reduce the concen-
balance on VSS and compute the value of kå.
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compute the
steady-
growth or decay, and may leave in the effluent. Con-
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low solids
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influent containing 55 mg/L of degradable organic
solids. The wastewater also contains 180 mg/L of die
solved organic carbon (DOC), which
For every gram of dissolved organic matter that is
degraded, the overall reaction converts a portion of
the material into CO2 and H2O, and another portion into
0.4 g of new biomass. Analytically, this biomass and the
degradable solids in the influent are both quantified as
volatile suspended solids (VSS); that is, the degradable
solids in the influent and the new biomass that grows in
the reactor are indistinguishable from one another.
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