Question

Chlorine is the most widely used disinfectant for killing pathogens during water treatment. Determine the kilograms of chlorine used daily at a water treatment plant handling 10,000 cubic meters per day of flow at a chlorine dosage of 10 mg/L. [Hint: Multiply the flow rate by the chlorine dosage and make appropriate conversions.] Ans

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

The given data is as follows.

Flow of chlorine (Q) =
`10,000 m^(3)/day`

Amount of liter present per day is as follows.

`10,000 * 10^(3) l/day`

It is given that dosage of chlorine will be as follows.

10 mg/l =
`10 * 10^(-6)` kg/l

Therefore, total chlorine requirement is as follows.

Total chlorine requirement =
`(10,000 * 10^(3)) * (10 * 10^(-6))` kg/day

= 100 kg/day

Thus, we can conclude that the kilograms of chlorine used daily at the given water treatment plant is 100 kg/day.