New York University Tandon School of Engineering

Department of Civil and Urban Engineering

CE-UY 3223, Fall 2016
Problem Set 1 SOLUTIONS

Problem 1
a.
1 mole of O3 is dissolved into 10,000 L of water.
[O3] (concentration of ozone) = 1 mol/10,000 L = 10-4 mol/L
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b.

mg
1000 mg
= molar conc O0 MW4#

L
g

g
3 mol O 16
mg
1078 mol O0
mol O 1000 mg = 4.8 mg O0
=

L
L
mol O0
g

0.08 ppmv of O3 in air means that for every 106 m3 of air, 0.080 m3 of O3 is present.

That gives us 0.08 x 10-6 m3 of O3/m3 of air. If ozone and air both behave as ideal gases, then we
know that the partial pressure of ozone is equal to [0.08 x 10-6 x the total pressure of the system
(1 atm)]. We can then calculate the molar concentration of ozone (n/V) using the ideal gas law,
PV = nRT:
n4 #
P4
= # =
V
RT

1 atm (0.08107E )
3.33107E moles O0
=
L atm
m0
m0
0.08205
(293 K)
K mol 1000L

We can now convert that to grams of O3 per L using the molecular weight of ozone (48 g/mol).
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g
3 mol O 16
g
3.33107E moles O0
g O0
mol O
=

= 1.61078 0
0
0
m
m
mol O0
m

c.
We repeat the above calculations using "# = 10 , T = 243 K, and P=10-4 atm.
(Recall that to convert C to K, simply add 273). Now we calculate:
10 volumes O0
1078 atm ( E
)
g
g
10
volumes air
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=
48
= 2.4107E g/m0
0
0
L

atm
m
m
mol
0.08205
(243 K)
K mol 1000L