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Aqualink ‐‐ Computer Prediction of Arsenic Ion Exchange
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1995.tb06352.x
Subject(s) - arsenic , arsenate , effluent , equilibrium constant , constant (computer programming) , chemistry , ion exchange resin , environmental chemistry , computer science , mineralogy , environmental science , inorganic chemistry , environmental engineering , organic chemistry , programming language
This brief article describes the equilibrium multicomponent chromatography theory with constant separation factors (EMCT‐CSF). A computer program based on this theory was used to predict the effluent histories, i.e., breakthrough curves, for the common anions present in natural water in addition to arsenate. The model helps tto answer two important engineering questions: how many bed volumes of water can be put through the resin before arsenic breaks through into the effluent?; and will arsenic peak if the run is not stopped when arsenic breaks through?