Small Multiorder BOD Reactions in Oxygen Sag Models
Publication: Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 134, Issue 7
Abstract
Wastewaters containing sugars are easily and rapidly biodegraded, which results in their exerting a short period of intense demand for dissolved oxygen (DO). Their carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) is described by an empirical multiorder decay reaction with an order less than one. Examples show calculations of multiorder BOD equation parameters from glucose and glutamic acid data and the effect of a wastewater on DO sag in a river.
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Acknowledgments
Several students contributed to Adrian’s BOD and DO sag equation studies including Robert Reining, Alan Li, Vanchai Tangpanichdee, Chao-Hsiang Yen, Curtis Sutherland, Ben Hill, Melanie Schnier-Chenard, and Trieu Le.
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Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 134 • Issue 7 • July 2008
Pages: 582 - 584
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Received: May 4, 2005
Accepted: Oct 8, 2007
Published online: Jul 1, 2008
Published in print: Jul 2008
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