🧪 Engineering Environmental Engineering Simulation
Engineer a chemical precipitation reactor: dose lime to raise pH, drive dissolved heavy metals below their hydroxide solubility limit, and watch flocs settle in a live 3D clarifier while residual concentration and discharge compliance update in real time.
This simulation models the core unit process of industrial wastewater treatment for heavy-metal-bearing effluent: chemical (hydroxide) precipitation. Choose the influent metal (copper, zinc, nickel or chromium), dose lime to set the reactor pH, and adjust the influent concentration and mixer speed to see how solubility-product chemistry, not intuition, determines how much metal survives into the discharge. A live 3D reactor shows dissolved ions swept by the mixer and converting into settling floc at a rate driven by the true equilibrium chemistry, while readouts track residual concentration, removal efficiency, sludge production and pass/fail compliance against a regulatory discharge limit for the selected metal.
This simulation explores concepts in environmental engineering, focusing on pollution control and resource management. Users will design systems to mitigate environmental impact from industrial processes.
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install