Designing hypolimnetic aeration and oxygenation systems - A review

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 7512-7520

  Singleton, Vickie L ^a   Little, John C ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); DIFFUSERS (FLUID); DISSOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXYGEN; PRODUCT DESIGN;

AIRLIFT AERATOR; BUBBLE-PLUME DIFFUSER; BUBBLE-PLUME MODELS; OXYGENATION;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

LAKE WATER; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CHEMICAL REACTORS; DIFFUSERS (FLUID); DISSOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXYGEN; PRODUCT DESIGN;

AERATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; HYPOLIMNION; LITERATURE REVIEW; MODELING; OXYGENATION; STRATIFICATION;

AERATION; AIR; DEVICE; DIFFUSION; FLOW RATE; GAS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAKE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OXYGENATION; REVIEW; SOLUBILITY; STEADY STATE; VELOCITY; WATER QUALITY;

AIR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXYGEN;

EID: 33845800877     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es060069s     Document Type: Review

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