Question: 2 . Bed - depth service time ( BDST ) analysis. A groundwater contaminated with 1 8 mg / L atrazine has been evaluated for

2. Bed-depth service time (BDST) analysis. A groundwater contaminated with 18 mg/L atrazine has been evaluated for GAC treatment using three pilot columns in series that are 5 cm in diameter and 3 m in length at a flow rate of 15 L/min. The pilot data were plotted with line for exhaustion (C/Co) and breakthrough (C/Co)=0.10 having slopes of 4.87 days/m and 4.91 days/m and intercepts of 6.2 days and 17.5 days, respectively. Based on these pilot scale data, determine:
(1) The carbon exhaustion rate (in Kg/day).
(2) The time until de carbon was exhausted (in days).
(3) The adsorptive capacity of the carbon (grams/m3).
(4) The number of columns required.
(5) The diameter of the full-scale pilot system if the flow rate is 7800 m3/day. You can assume that the volumetric loading rate (m3/(m2-day) of the pilot plant and the full-scale plant is the same.
You can assume that the bulk density of GAC is 481 Kg/m3.

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