ENVE 322 HOMEWORK 1

Due: 10.03.2014, Recitation Hour

1. Consider a fish metabolizing oxygen as it passes through the canal that connects the mouth and
gills.

Assuming the fish is 20% efficient in transferring oxygen from the water, what would be the rate of
oxygen metabolized in kg/h if the oxygen concentration of water is 8.2 mg/L and the fish can process
1.3 L of water every second?


2. A well-stirred tank is fed by an inlet pipe with cross-section, A1= 15cm
2
. The inlet velocity is U
1
=
20cm/s. Inside the tank a plaster ball slowly dissolves supplying a steady source of calcium carbonate
to the water, S = +10g/s. The outlet pipe area is the same as the inlet. There is no calcium carbonate
in the inow. At steady state, what is the outlet concentration?








3. A waste stream (Qin,1 = 0.84 m
3
/s) contains 40 mg/L of chemical C. How much of a second waste
stream containing only 2.1 mg C /L must be combined with it to achieve a final concentration of 22
mg/L?





S
Qin, 1

Qin, 2

Qout, 1

4. A sewage pipe from a wastewater treatment plant discharges 1.0 m /s of effluent containing 5.0
mg/l of phosphorus compounds (reported as mg P/l) into a river with an upstream flow rate of 25 m
/s and a phosphorus concentration of 0.010 mg P/l (see Figure). What is the resulting concentration
of phosphorus in the river downstream of the sewage outflow, in units of mg/l?