A lab operation results in releasing air containing chloroform into the environment. To remedy this, an absorber is being proposed to scrub the gas using pure water to decrease the chloroform concentration to a permissible 10 ppm. If the air stream enters the column at 1,000 kmol/hr with 200 ppm chloroform and the water enters the column at 187,300 kmol/hr, how many stages should be designed into the absorption column? The air is at 25ÂșC and 1.5 atm.
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