Determine the reactor volume (assume a CSTR activated sludge aerobic reactor at steady state) required to treat 5 MGD of domestic wastewater from an influent BOD concentration of 250 mg/L to an effluent concentration of 10 mg/L. X (MLVSS) = 3000 mg/L, and the kinetics are first order and not variable order. The first order equation you must use to calculate the specific substrate utilization rate is q = K S where S is the effluent BOD concentration and K is the first order BOD degradation rate constant. The value of K is 0.04 L/(day*mg). What is the required reactor volume in MG (millions of gallons)? All the choices below are in units of MG. 0.4
1.0
0.2
4.8