The PureNSafe Company is designing a solar-driven, portable water disinfection system to be used by the military. The system is simply an inlet tube, a pump, a well-mixed chamber, and an outlet tube. Water is pumped continuously into the chamber where it is irradiated with UV light before exiting through the outlet tube into a collection vessel. The disinfection rate constant for UV light is 7.80 s-1, and the bacterial count in the water must be reduced by 99.9 percent. Because the army needs the unit to fit into a backpack, they require that the units chamber be no larger than 2.00 liters. How much water will the system be able to produce during 10 hours of sunlight?

Answer rating: 100% (QA)

Calculate the time required by using the equation Here T is the require time S is the substr... View the full answer