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Total ammonia-nitrogen, mg/L<br />

Equilibrium carbon dioxide, mg/L<br />

100<br />

30<br />

20<br />

10<br />

100.0<br />

30.0<br />

20.0<br />

10.0<br />

3.0<br />

2.0<br />

1.0<br />

0.3<br />

0.2<br />

0.1<br />

1 2<br />

1<br />

50 mg/L<br />

6.0 6.5 7.0 7.5 8.0<br />

4<br />

pH<br />

6.0 6.5 7.0 7.5 8.0<br />

pH<br />

Figure 3. These two graphs illustrate <strong>the</strong> dependence of dissolved carbon dioxide<br />

concentrations on pH and alkalinity (top graph) and <strong>the</strong> dependence of un-ionized<br />

ammonia concentrations on pH and total ammonia-nitrogen (bottom graph), according to<br />

acid-base equilibrium. The gray lines indicate how setting maximum limits on <strong>the</strong><br />

concentrations of dissolved carbon dioxide (1) and un-ionized ammonia (3), at a given<br />

alkalinity (2), will set <strong>the</strong> minimum operating pH and <strong>the</strong> maximum allowable TAN (4).<br />

9<br />

3<br />

Alkalinity<br />

400 mg/L<br />

300 mg/L<br />

200 mg/L<br />

100 mg/L<br />

Equil. NH3<br />

0.025 mg/L<br />

0.0125 mg/L

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