Q2) Bioremediation is a method of cleaning up contaminated groundwater and soil. If a dilute solution of nutrients is pumped via a well into a closed soil layer underground at the rate of 1.5 kg/hr, and a recovery well removes 1.2 kg of depleted solution per hour, answer the following Questions: a. What is the system (draw a picture)? b. What is the value of the input per hour? c. What is the value of the output per hour? d. What is the value of the accumulation per hour? e. What assumption has to be made to answer (d)?

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Bioremediation is a method of cleaning up contaminated
groundwater and soil. If a dilute solution of nutrients is pumped
via a well into a closed soil layer underground at the rate of 1.5
kg/hr, and a recovery well removes 1.2 kg of depleted solution
per hour, answer the following
Questions:
a. What is the system (draw a picture)?
b. What is the value of the input per hour?
c. What is the value of the output per hour?
d. What is the value of the accumulation per hour?
e. What assumption has to be made to answer (d)?
Transcribed Image Text:Q2) Bioremediation is a method of cleaning up contaminated groundwater and soil. If a dilute solution of nutrients is pumped via a well into a closed soil layer underground at the rate of 1.5 kg/hr, and a recovery well removes 1.2 kg of depleted solution per hour, answer the following Questions: a. What is the system (draw a picture)? b. What is the value of the input per hour? c. What is the value of the output per hour? d. What is the value of the accumulation per hour? e. What assumption has to be made to answer (d)?
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