Experimental study on the performance of an air-lift pump for artificial upwelling

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue , 2013, Pages 47-57

  Fan, Wei ^a,b,c   Chen, Jiawang ^c   Pan, Yiwen ^c   Huang, Haocai ^c   Arthur Chen, Chen Tung ^b   Chen, Ying ^c  

^a HANGZHOU DIANZI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air lift pump; Artificial upwelling; Eutrophication; Nutrients

Indexed keywords

AIR INJECTION; AIR INJECTORS; AIR VOLUMES; AIR-LIFT; AIR-LIFT PUMPS; ARTIFICIAL UPWELLING; DEEP WATER; EFFICIENCY INCREASE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; FRICTIONAL LOSS; OCEAN WATER; OPTIMAL DESIGN; PIPE DIAMETER; POWER DEMANDS; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; PUMP CAPACITY; SEA SURFACES; THEORETICAL MODELS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EFFICIENCY; EUTROPHICATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW RATE; KINETICS; NOZZLE DESIGN; NUTRIENTS; PHYTOPLANKTON;

PUMPS;

AIRFLOW; DEEP WATER; EUTROPHICATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMETRY; NUTRIENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; UPWELLING;

EID: 84872060154     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2012.11.014     Document Type: Article

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