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The effective saturation depth,, represents the depth of water under which the total pressure (hydrostatic plus atmospheric) would produce a saturation concentration equal to for water ia contact with air at 100% relative humidity. This can be calculated usiag the above equation, based on a spatial average value of T, measured by a clean water test. For design purposes,, can be estimated from clean water test results on similar systems, and it can range from 5 to 50% of tank Hquid depth. Effective depth values for coarse bubble diffused air, fine bubble diffused air, and low speed surface aerators are 26 to 34%, 21 to 44%, and 5 to 7%, of the Hquid depth, respectively. 

Heat is used to darken amber, ivory, and jade to simulate age. Pieces of amber and tortoiseshell can be reconstmcted, ie, joined under heat and moderate pressure. By careful heating in oil, milky amber can be clarified when the gas and water within small bubbles diffuse out of the stone. If heating is rapid, the attractive sun-spangle cracking shown in Figure 1 results. 

TABLE 1 Construction and Operating Cost Comparison for Mixflo Oxygenation System versus Fine Bubble Diffuser Aeration... 

A construction and operating cost comparison between Mixflo technology and tine bubble diffuser aeration is presented in Table 1. 

EXAMPLE 9.4 Sizing bubble diffusers for a reservoir with combined sewer overflow... 

A fine bubble aeration system for McCook Reservoir was designed using the same procedure. The system was first designed for the high BOD of 80 mg/L and a depth of 10 m. It was determined that a fine bubble diffuser with an air flow rate of 20 scmh would maintain aerobic conditions for an area of 115 m. From this, 3,438 fine bubble diffusers supplying a total air flow of 68,760 scmh would be needed for the reservoir. For this case, KlAs = 0.003 hr and KlAs = 0.044hr. ... 

A coarse bubble aeration system for McCook Reservoir requires only 1,160 diffusers, approximately one-third of the 3,438 diffusers needed for a fine bubble aeration system. However, significantly less air flow is needed for the fine bubble diffusers in comparison with the coarse bubble diffusers. At the more common depth of 10 m, the air flow required by the fine bubble diffusers was 39% of that required by the coarse bubble diffusers. These considerations and the mixing requirements of the reservoir are a part of the aeration system design. 

Lemlich s model [30] suggests that the gas in the bubbles diffuses into the liquid. The gas concentration in the liquid is directly proportional to a certain gas pressure in the liquid. On its turn, this pressure corresponds to the pressure of an arbitrary (random) bubble with radius Ra... 

Example 9.8 A settling column 4 m in height is used to determine the a of a wastewater. The wastewater is to be aerated using a fine-bubble diffuser in the prototype aeration tank. The laboratory diffuser releases air at the bottom of the tank. The result of the unsteady state aeration test is shown below. Assume P = 0.926, r = 1.0 mg/F h and the plant is 304.79 m above mean sea level. For practical purposes, assume mass density of water = 1000 kg/m. Assume an ambient temperature of 25°C. Calculate a. 

Re is a Reynolds number g is the acceleration due to gravity /d is the absolute viscosity of fluid pi is the mass density of fluid cr is the surface tension of fluid Pg is the mass density of the gas phase (air) and f is the average radius of the bubbles. To give Gi a name, we called it the Peebles number. If the depth of submergence of the bubble diffuser and the rise velocity computed from one of the above equations are known, the time of contact between the gas phase in the bubbles and the surrounding water can be determined. This is illustrated in the next example. 

Once the bubbles leave the electrode surface (when they have a radius equal to the departure radius) they diffuse into the bubble diffusion region. This region has a very high bubble concentration [12] with a typical thickness of a few millimetres. The bubbles can still grow. 

Figure 3.8 Schematic representation of the bubble layer structure (according to Janssen [67] and Boissonneau and Byrne [12], with kind permission from Springer Science+Business Media). Three regions axe identified the adherence region, the bubble diffusion region, and the bulk region.

The bubbles in the inter-electrode gap (bubble diffusion region and bulk region) increase the inter-electrode resistance, as they affect the electrical conductivity of the electrolyte. The parameter describing this increase is the gas void fraction e, defined as the fraction between the volume of gas and the total volume of liquid and gas. Several relations are used in the electrochemical literature to quantify this effect. The most widely used are the relations from Bruggeman [16] ... 

Let us first start with the description of the bubble diffusion region that is directly accessible to visual observations. The important parameters that characterise the bubble diffusion region are the gas void fraction e and the geometrical shape of the bubble layer, both of which are dependent on the cell geometry. We will restrict the discussion to the case that is most representative of micromachining with electrochemical discharges the case of a thin electrode dipped inside an electrolyte. The electrochemical cell is much larger than the electrode. 

Figure 3.10 shows the bubble diffusion layers around a cylindrical electrode of a few millimetres length for various terminal voltages. One can see that in all cases the bubble layer has a similar conical shape, more or less independently of the terminal voltage. The bubble builds a random close packing structure. Note that the volume void fraction of a random close packing structure for identical spheres is about 0.64 [64]. 

To describe the contribution to the inter-electrode resistance a simplified model will be used. Let us assume that the bubble diffusion layer has a mean thickness d, and that the gas void fraction is constant and equal to e over the whole electrode height h. The efficient conductivity of the electrolyte is... 

Figure 3.10 Bubble diffusion layers around a cylindrical electrode of a few millimetres length at various terminal voltages [123].

The consequence of the existence of the bubble diffusion region is that the potential distribution at a gas evolving electrode contains an additional potential drop compared with Equation (3.22) ... 

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