Sorry for the double post here and in the chemistry forums. Working on this assessment and looking for a quick answer…
I know there isn’t a definitive answer for a suspension, but I’m looking for a ballpark range for alk of a super saturated kalk slurry.
Background - I’m helping another member with an insurance claim on his coral farm. As a liquid handling/reactor SME in biotech, the insurance company agreed to accept a root cause analysis from me. If the equipment can be even partially blamed for the incident, he can recover some of his losses from insurance. I believe a kalk reactor design flaw may have contributed to the dumping of a large amount of kalk slurry into the system which led to a massive alk and pH swing before any controller could shut down the reactor. A key piece of evidence would be to reconcile the volume of liquid that would theoretically be dumped in the suspected failure mode with the observed alk/pH spike and theoretical spike from that volume of kalk slurry.
I know there isn’t a definitive answer for a suspension, but I’m looking for a ballpark range for alk of a super saturated kalk slurry.
Background - I’m helping another member with an insurance claim on his coral farm. As a liquid handling/reactor SME in biotech, the insurance company agreed to accept a root cause analysis from me. If the equipment can be even partially blamed for the incident, he can recover some of his losses from insurance. I believe a kalk reactor design flaw may have contributed to the dumping of a large amount of kalk slurry into the system which led to a massive alk and pH swing before any controller could shut down the reactor. A key piece of evidence would be to reconcile the volume of liquid that would theoretically be dumped in the suspected failure mode with the observed alk/pH spike and theoretical spike from that volume of kalk slurry.
