Some old electrical transformers were stored in the basement of
a university maintenance building, and were “forgotten.” One day a
worker entered the basement and saw that some sticky, oily
substance was oozing out of one of the transformers, and into a
floor drain. He notified the director of grounds, who immediately
realized the severity of the problem. They called in hazardous
waste consulting engineers who first of all took out the
transformers and eliminated the source of the polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs) that were leaking into the storm drain. Then they
traced the drain to a little stream, and started taking water
samples and soil samples in the stream. They discovered that the
water was at 0.12 mg/L PCB, and the soil ranged from 32 mg PCB/kg
(dry soil) to 0.5 mg/kg. The state environmental management
required that streams contaminated with PCBs be cleaned so that the
stream is “free” of PCBs. Recall that PCBs are very toxic and
extremely stable in the environment, and will biodegrade very
slowly. If nothing was done, the contaminant in the soil would
remain for perhaps hundreds of years. The cleanup resulted in the
PCB concentration in the water being at 0.000073 mg/L. Was the
treatment sufficient?
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Some old electrical transformers were stored in the basement of a university maintenance building, and were...
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which were formerly used in the manufacture of electrical transformers, are environmental and health hazards. They break down very slowly in the environment. The decomposition of PCBs can be represented by the equation 2CH.CI + 230, + 2H, 0 24C0, + 12 HCI How many moles of water are needed to react with 10.0 mol 0,2 moles of water: How many grams of HCI are produced when 15.2 mol H, reacts? HCI produced: How many moles of...