Calculating the Amount of Chlorine Present in Drinking Water as a Function of Time

by Mckenna Dyjak

 

Submitted : Fall 2017

Chlorination is the process of adding chlorine to drinking water to disinfect by killing harmful microorganisms. Chlorine in high doses is considered to be harmful, however, the amount added to drinking water is present in low levels while properly disinfecting the bacteria. The Environmental Protection Agency requires chlorine levels in water to be up to 4 milligrams per liter to be considered safe to drink. In order to ensure safe levels of chlorine the amount of chlorine present in a tank must be determined as a rate of time. The solution that gives the amount of chlorine at a time (t) was determined and used to find the amount of time (t) that had to pass in order for the concentration of chlorine to be within safe drinking levels.

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