Modelling and Simulation of the Effect of Effluent from Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company on River Kaduna

Abstract

This study looked at the modeling and simulation of a fundamental model that can be used for predicting the effect of effluent from Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company (KRPC) on River Kaduna using pH as criteria for evaluation. Five model equations were developed using the empirical method of the least squares, and simulated using MathCAD professional software. The simulated results were found to be in a close agreement with the experimental values. The correlation coefficients of 0.9999, 0.9998, 1.0000 ,0.9998 and 0.9994 for the distance of 20,40 ,60 80 and 100m, respectively, from the point of discharge into the water way show that the empirical equations developed are in agreement and perfectly correlated with the experimental results. The model equations developed (using the empirical method of the least squares) can be used to investigate the effect of effluent from Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemicals Company on the quality of river water.