Research Article
Dec 1971
Aeration Systems for Large Navigable Rivers
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Volume 97, Issue 6
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River aeration systems, using only slight modifications of commercially available components, appear to offer a very economical means of achieving dissolved oxygen standards on major rivers. Whether surface aerators or bottom air diffusers are applicable to a given site depends primarily upon requirements of navigation. Spacing of aerator sites would require an analysis of dispersion characteristics and biochemical-oxygen-demand regimen. On critical areas of the Delaware estuary costs of obtaining the last milligram per liter of dissolved oxygen by river aeration are estimated to be less than one-third of the cost of obtaining the same objective through waste treatment only. There is a possibility that even lesser costs could be realized through use of pure oxygen dispersers, but these possibilities do not appear to have been fully explored.
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Journal of the Sanitary Engineering Division
Volume 97 • Issue 6 • December 1971
Pages: 883 - 902
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© 1971 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Feb 12, 2021
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William Whipple Jr., F.ASCE
Dir., Water Resources Research Inst., Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Shaw L. Yu, AM.ASCE
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Civ. and Environmental Engrg., Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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