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CE5504 – Surface Water Quality Modeling CE5504 Surface Water Quality Modeling Lab 1. Modeling 101
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discovery application fate and transport decision support integration Surface Water Quality Engineering
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Reactor Analogs CE5504 – Surface Water Quality Modeling Plug Flow Reactor (rivers) Completely-Mixed Flow Reactor (lakes, bays, nearshore) Mille Lacs Lake, Minnesota Fox River, Wisconsin
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The Reactor Analog for Lakes CE5504 – Surface Water Quality Modeling Completely Mixed Flow Reactor CMFR
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The Mass Balance CE5504 – Surface Water Quality Modeling CMF Reactor Characteristics completely mixed (C out = C) constant volume (Q in = Q out )
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The Mass Balance CE5504 – Surface Water Quality Modeling Control Volume the system about which the mass balance will be computed.
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The Mass Balance CE5504 – Surface Water Quality Modeling Kinetics growth decay RXN
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The Mass Balance CE5504 – Surface Water Quality Modeling Kinetics 0 order reactions rate is not a function of concentration C t = C 0 - k∙t k, mg·L -1 ·d -1
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The Mass Balance CE5504 – Surface Water Quality Modeling Kinetics 1 st order reactions rate is a function of concentration lnC t = -k∙t + lnC 0 or C t = C 0 ·e -k·t k, d -1
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Writing the Mass Balance CE5504 – Surface Water Quality Modeling RXN 1 st order decay
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At Steady State CE5504 – Surface Water Quality Modeling RXN 1 st order decay 0 At steady state, the source terms are equal to the sink terms and there is no net change in mass within the control volume.
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Time Variable (analytical solution) CE5504 – Surface Water Quality Modeling flushing out building in
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Time to Steady State Variable CE5504 – Surface Water Quality Modeling Noting that the hydraulic retention time, = V/Q and (Chapra, Sec. 3.3) or, for 95% or
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Variability in and k CE5504 – Surface Water Quality Modeling Lake (years) Superior179 Michigan136 Ontario 8 Onondaga 0.25 Materialk (yr -1 ) Organic C36.5 Atrazine1.0 PCB0.05 Chloride 0
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Review CE5504 – Surface Water Quality Modeling 1.Can you see any limitations to the analogs in Slide 3? 2.Can you identify 2 additional source terms for lakes in Slide 4? 3.Discuss the completely mixed and constant volume assumptions in Slide 5. 4.Develop an example of an inappropriately-defined control volume in Slide 6. 5.Provide some additional examples of growth and decay in Slide 7. 6.Show how a system acts to bring itself to steady state; see Slide 10. 7.In lab - a.Determine half-lives of selected chemical species. b.Compare response times of lake/chemical couplets. c.Calculation of steady state concentrations. d.Time variable solutions: kinetics and step function response.
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