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pH Computation

Sun, 07/05/2020 - 12:29am — Saber
I wanna model pH in my reservoir, yet in the Active Constituent section, I have turned on TIC = pH. Of course, I have turned on pH on the Derived constituent computations. I was wondering if turning TIC to pH means that I can use pH data for inflow instead of TIC and the initial concentration also turns into pH?? I have searched the user manual thoroughly yet all I have found was information about when the TIC is ON and the fact that TIC means total inorganic carbon mg/l as C.
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Mon, 08/31/2020 - 11:23am — chris

Hi Saber, I can't find anyplace in the code that turns on pH computations by setting TIC to 'pH' in the active constituent section, but perhaps you're using a version of CE-QUAL-W2 than I'm not familiar with. Generally, we model pH by modeling TIC and alkalinity (turn these constituents to 'ON') and also setting pH to 'ON' in the derived constituent section. Chris