Water with 90 mg/L of a degradable contaminant flows through a reactor. The influent flow rate entering the reactor is 100 m3/day. The reactor has a volume of 200 m3 . The contaminant is degraded in the reactor following first-order reaction kinetics with a rate constant of 1.0 d-1 . The reactor is well mixed throughout the time (i.e., a CSTR). What is the contaminant concentration in the reactor when reaching a steady state condition?

Water with 90 mg/L of a degradable contaminant flows through a reactor. The influent flow rate entering the reactor is 100 m3/day. The reactor has a volume of 200 m3 . The contaminant is degraded in the reactor following first-order reaction kinetics with a rate constant of 1.0 d-1 . The reactor is well mixed throughout the time (i.e., a CSTR). What is the contaminant concentration in the reactor when reaching a steady state condition?

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