Consider a wastewater treatment reactor where with an influent flow rate of 2,500 m3/day and where the biomass has the following kinetic characteristics: fs0 = 0.7, KS = 10 mg/l, k= 10 mg/mg VSS-day, b = 0.1/day, Y=0.50 g VSS/g substrate, fd=0.8, and Xa=1,500 mg VSS/l. If the reactor was designed with a safety factor of 30, what is its design fs value.

Consider a wastewater treatment reactor where with an influent flow rate of 2,500 m3/day and where the biomass has the following kinetic characteristics: fs0 = 0.7, KS = 10 mg/l, k= 10 mg/mg VSS-day, b = 0.1/day, Y=0.50 g VSS/g substrate, fd=0.8, and Xa=1,500 mg VSS/l. If the reactor was designed with a safety factor of 30, what is its design fs value.

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