Homework Help: Environmental engineering

Posted by Jazmin on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 11:51pm.

The company you work for plans to release a waste stream containing 7 mg/L
of benzaldehyde . Assuming that benzaldehyde degrades according to the reaction:
C7H6O + 8O2 → 7CO2 + 3H2O
Calculate the theoretical carbonaceous oxygen demand of this waste stream in mg/L.

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