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Measurement of reaeration coefficients for selected Florida streams

Water-Resources Investigations Report 87-4020
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https://doi.org/10.3133/wri874020

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Abstract

A total of 29 separate reaeration coefficient determinations were performed on 27 subreaches of 12 selected Florida streams between October 1981 and May 1985. Measurements performed prior to June 1984 were made using the peak and area methods with ethylene and propane as the tracer gases. Later measurements utilized the steady-state method with propane as the only tracer gas. The reaeration coefficients ranged from 1.07 to 45.9 days with a mean estimated probable error of +/16.7%. Ten predictive equations (compiled from the literature) were also evaluated using the measured coefficients. The most representative equation was one of the energy dissipation type with a standard error of 60.3%. Seven of the 10 predictive additional equations were modified using the measured coefficients and nonlinear regression techniques. The most accurate of the developed equations was also of the energy dissipation form and had a standard error of 54.9%. For 5 of the 13 subreaches in which both ethylene and propane were used, the ethylene data resulted in substantially larger reaeration coefficient values which were rejected. In these reaches, ethylene concentrations were probably significantly affected by one or more electrophilic addition reactions known to occur in aqueous media. (Author 's abstract)

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Hampson, P.S., Coffin, J., 1989, Measurement of reaeration coefficients for selected Florida streams: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 87-4020, vi, 81 p. :ill. ;28 cm., https://doi.org/10.3133/wri874020.

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Measurement of reaeration coefficients for selected Florida streams
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 87-4020
DOI 10.3133/wri874020
Year Published 1989
Language ENGLISH
Publisher Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ; Books and Open-File Reports [distributor],
Description vi, 81 p. :ill. ;28 cm.
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