WATER QUALITY

MEASURE OF WATER QUALITY

Dissolved Oxygen Biochemical Oxygen Demand Solids Nitrogen Bacteriological

DISSOLVED OXYGEN

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND BOD = I F

where I = initial DO, mg/L F= final DO, mg/L

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND

BOD = (I F)D
where D = dilution represented as fraction and defined as D = Total Volume of bottle Volume of Sample

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND

y = L(1 e-kt)
where y = BOD at any time t in days, mg/L L = ultimate BOD, mg/L k = deoxygenation constant

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND

kT (T 20) k 20
= 1.047 T = temperature (oC) k20 = reaction rate constant at the standard lab T kT = reaction rate at a different T

1. Given the following BOD5 test results: Initial DO 8 mg/L Final DO 0 mg/L Dilution 1 : 10 a. What can you say about BOD5? b. BOD ultimate? 2. Draw a typical DO curve for a BOD run at the following conditions: a. Stream water, 20oC, dark b. Unseeded sugar water, 20oC, dark c. Stream water, 20oC, with light d. Stream water, 40oC, dark

3. Consider the following data from a BOD test:

Day DO(mg/L) Day DO(mg/L) 0 9 5 6 1 9 6 6 2 9 7 4 3 8 8 3 4 7 9 3 a. What is the BOD5? b. Ultimate carbonaceous BOD? c. Ultimate nitrogenous BOD? d. Why do you think there is no oxygen used until the third day?

4. A wastewater sample has a k1 = 0.2day-1 and an ultimate BOD = 200 mg/L. What is the final dissolved oxygen in a BOD bottle in which the sample is diluted 1:20 and wherein the initial dissolved oxygen is 10.2 mg/L?

5. A BOD analysis is begun on Monday. 40 mL of waste with DO=0 is mixed with 260 mL of dilution water with a DO of 10 mL. The sample is then put in the incubator. Since the 5th day falls on Saturday, and lab personnel do not work on Saturday, the final DO does not get measured until Monday, the 7th day. The final DO is measured at 3.5 mg/L. However it is discovered that the incubator was set at 300C. Assume that k1 = 0.2/day at 200C and that = 1.047. Determine the BOD5 at 200C of the waste.