Monday, April 5, 2010

Ammoniacal Nitrogen

Ammoniacal Nitrogen is a pungent and irritating gas that exist from leachate - a liquid that exist when your rubbish deteriorates. A filtration system is currently being used to reduce it but somehow the results that came out from lab test seems funny.

Leachate is being flown through multiple stages of filters in order to reduce its contaminants and liquid concentration hence reducing ammoniacal nitrogen. But somehow..it increase in certain stages of filters. Which is funny since its suppose to reduce stage by stage. Any idea why such thing can happen?

Reason 1:
Some may say that maybe the sampling points were clogged with contaminants which means higher amount of gas.
* Sampling point has been left open for 1minute to ensure that the flow is transient/laminar, any clogs have been reduced/removed so that samples aren't influenced by flow or clogs.

Could there be any other reasons? maybe when certain contaminants are removed, the concentration of gas becomes higher? any idea?

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