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Problem statement is asking for volumetric flowrate*

Transcribed Image Text:26.27 A biofilm reactor with a well-mixed liquid phase
shown below will be used to treat wastewater contaminated
with trichloroethylene (TCE) at a concentration 0.25 mg/L
(1.9 mmole/m³, MTCE = 131.4 g/gmole). The available sur-
face area of the biofilm in the reactor is 800 m², and the
desired outlet concentration of TCE is 0.05 mg/L (0.05 g/m³).
It can be assumed that in a well-mixed, continuous- ow
reactor at steady state, the concentration of the solute of
the liquid phase of inside the reactor is equal to the concen-
tration of the solute in the liquid ow exiting the reactor. It
may also be assumed that the TCE degradation in the biofilm,
which of 8 = 100 µm thickness, proceeds by homogeneous first-
order reaction kinetics.
a. What volumetric ow rate of wastewater is allowed to
enter the reactor? The temperature of the process is
constant at 20°C.
b. What is the concentration of TCE in the biofilm at the point
where the biofilm is attached to the surface? What fraction of
100 μm thickness of the biofilm is utilized?
Potentially useful data*: KTCE = 4.31 s ¹ (first-order rate
constant for TCE in biofilm); DTCE-biofilm = 9.03 × 10-¹0 m²/s
(diffusion coefficient TCE in biofilm).
*J.P. Arcangeli, E. Arvin, Environ. Sci. Technol., 31, 3044
(1997).
Waste water
feed steam
CAi = 0.25 g TCE/m³
V = ?
Biofilm
4-8
Well-mixed
contactor
Treated
waste water
CAO = 0.05 g TCE/m³
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