Water Treatment Conversion Factors - Concentrations

Pounds of Anything

We initially used the below chart to determine the size of Ozonators in Pounds per day when we had a known flow rate in Gallons per Minute(GPM) and/or gallons per day of water consumed. We have since decided to use the chart for other very practical reasons. If we happen to know a concentration or a suspected concentration of something in water, the chart gives us a common sense way to determine if our assumptions are correct.

Assume a water flow rate of 100 GPM and a contaminant concentration of 10 PPM. After one full day(24 Hours) of flow we will have seen 1,199,088 pounds of water. Running down the 10.0 PPM Concentration row we see that we would have 12 pounds of the contaminant. One gallon is 8.327(See Conversion Factors on the other side of this sheet) pounds, so we would have 1-1/2 Gallons of contaminant. Is this practical? Is what we have selected big enough to remove that much material? Do these assumptions make sense? Try this chart. It is disarmingly useful.

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• Conversion Factors Pounds
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