Instream Dissolved Oxygen Augmentation, 2002 Environmental Conference Proceedings
J. W. Ridgway and K. Giberson
The city of Dearborn, Michigan's Instream Dissolved Oxygen Augmentation Project has successfully demonstrated that a slipstream of river water could be super saturated with dissolved oxygen at concentrations exceeding 800 mg/l without introducing bubbles into the natural river system. This allows near 100% oxygen transfer in shallow, moving water without released oxygen to the atmosphere for over 3500 feet (where the most distant measurements were made).
This practice and this technology can be applied in any industry where episodic dissolved oxygen deficiencies occur and these worst case scenarios become the constraint driving the sizing of the wastewater treatment facility.