Presentado por:

Roberto Balda Ayala

MsC. Ingeniera Sanitaria

DEFINITIONS
GAS TRANSFER: gas molecules are exchanged between

a liquid and a gas at a gas liquid interface.

INCREASE OF THE GAS?
DECREASE OF THE GAS?

Absorption
desorption

DESORPTION
OXYGEN RELEASE: algal activities
RELEASE OF TASTE AND ODOUR:
volatile substances
RELEASE OF METHANE, H2S:
anaerobic conditions

INDUCED GAS TRANSFER BY AERATION

O2 TO GROUNDWATERS
O2 TO SEWAGE
CO2 REMOVAL
NH4 REMOVAL
CH4 REMOVAL
VOLATILE OILS REMOVAL

ELEMENTS OF AERATION

towerTOWER
Bandeja

Carbn
coque

Soportes de la
torre

TWO LAYERS
Liquid

Gas
Interphase
Gas - Liquid
Resistance of gas
Moles to the liquid

For O2 (low solubility) limiting resistance is

within the liquid film

SO, TO START:
(Cs)760 : Oxygen saturation values for water under

standard conditions of T and Patm Donde Cs (20C

and 1 atm) = 9.2 mg/L

Cs: D.O concentration (mg/L) of tab water

Csw: D.O concentration (mg/L) of wastewater
Where: Betha = Csw/Cs
: 0,92 0.98

At Patm due to T and Dissolved solids

(DS)
(Csw)760 = (475 0.00265 SD)/(33.5 + T)

Under standard pressure (760

mm Hg)
DS

: mg/L

: C

For wastewater, DO
concentration at pressure P:
Csw = Cs = (Cs)760 * (P-Pv)/(760 Pv)
P = barometric pressure (mm Hg)
Pv = Vapor pressure of water (mm Hg)

KLa : Oxygen transfer coefficient

KLa = 2.303 * log (Csw C1)/(Csw-C2)

t2 t1
KLa can be obtained with two (2) D.O.
experimental measurements (aerators
must not be running to set D.O. = 0, then
they are re-started and plotted D.O.
values vs. aeration time

C : actual DO
concentration at a certain
time

C
dC/dt
Slopes are
computed at
time intervals t

t
C = g O2/m3
T = seconds

Draft force
Cs C

(the higher the O2

concentration the lower
the absortion rate due to
transfer)

1.0

Slope: KLa
2.3

Log (Cs-Co)
(Cs-C)
0.1

Lab measurement of Oxygen

Transfer Coefficient KLa

Not all the O2 really dissolved is

available for m.o. :
O2 available for m.o.
under operation
conditions

KLa of wastewater
KLa of tab water
Absorbed O2 under
standard conditions