The measurement of benthal oxygen demand in the Houston Ship Channel

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dc.acquisition-srcen_US
dc.call-noAcc#358-Box#2en_US
dc.call-noJournal Water Pollution Control Federationen_US
dc.contract-noen_US
dc.contributor.authorWard, G.H., Jr.en_US
dc.contributor.otherJournal Water Pollution Control Federationen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-15T17:03:13Z
dc.date.available2010-02-15T17:03:13Z
dc.date.issued1984en_US
dc.degreeen_US
dc.descriptionpgs. 183-191en_US
dc.description-otheren_US
dc.description.abstractA dredged canal is maintained from the entrance of Galveston Bay to the Port of Houston. O2 demand of benthal sediments is an important O2 sink in the Houston Ship Channel in Texas. A laboratory respirometer was designed to measure the rates of O2-depletion above a sediment sample. Design problems attending the high rates of O2 depletion were described and results of a pilot study of channel sediments are reported. Thirty respirometers were used, and their results correlated with a simple biochemical O2 demand (BOD) indicator test, to map the spatial distribution of benthal O2 demand in the channel. Use of the measured rates in a mathematical dissolved O2 model required consideration of the proper formulation of the benthal sink term in the model.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://gbic.tamug.edu/request.htmen_US
dc.geo-codeHouston Ship Channelen_US
dc.geo-codeGalveston Bayen_US
dc.geo-codePort of Houstonen_US
dc.history5/26/06 easen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/21371
dc.latitudeen_US
dc.locationGBIC Archives Collection; TAMUG Periodical Collectionen_US
dc.longitudeen_US
dc.notesen_US
dc.placeWashington, D.C.en_US
dc.publisherWater Pollution Control Federationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries358.00en_US
dc.relation.urien_US
dc.scaleen_US
dc.seriesen_US
dc.subjectnavigational channelsen_US
dc.subjectsedimentsen_US
dc.subjectbenthosen_US
dc.subjectdredgingen_US
dc.subjectbiochemical oxygen demand (BOD)en_US
dc.subjectsediment analysisen_US
dc.subjectmodelsen_US
dc.subjectmodelingen_US
dc.titleThe measurement of benthal oxygen demand in the Houston Ship Channelen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.universityen_US
dc.vol-issuev.56, no.2en_US

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