Question

1) a) Why is it important to correctly measure the chemicals used in the water treatment plants? b) How might incorrect measurements affect the environment?

2) How and why are environmental contaminants monitored in the soil, water, and air around a chemical manufacturing plant?

Answer 1

1) a) It is  important to correctly measure the chemicals used in the water treatment plants as errors in quantitative accuracy of chemicals needed to produce different batch sizes of a product will create unwanted and runaway reactions.

b) Incorrect measurements of the chemicals used in the water treatment plants will result in huge explosions and can have devastating short and long-term effects on the environment.

2) Environmental contaminants are monitored by the following techniques.

• Spectroscopy using Infrared (IR) rays, Ultraviolet (UV) rays and Visible rays
• Satellite observation
• Sidescan sonar
• Bioluminescent reporter chips

Environmental contaminants should be monitored in the soil, water, and air around a chemical manufacturing plant in order to prevent the pollution of environment.