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A water treatment plant has 6 settling tanks thatoperate in parallel (the flow gets split into six equal flowstreams), and each tank has a volume of 600m^3. If the flow to theplant is 10mgd, what is the retention time in each of the settlingtanks? If, instead, the tanks operated in series (the entire flowgoes first through one tank, then the second, and so on), whatwould be the retention time in each tank?

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mgd stands for million gallons per day Now 1 mgd will be 37854 m3day so 10 mgd will be 37854 m3day 6 settling tanks each of volume 600 m3 So total settling volume is 3600 m3 a So    See Answer
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