V. The determination of the rate of solution of atmospheric nitrogen and oxygen by water

Reaeration in open-channel flow

“…Adeney andBecker (1919, 1920) showed that the absorption of oxygen by water is a first-order process; that is, the rate of absorption is directly proportional to the saturation deficit. This process may be described by Streeter and Phelps (1925) assumed that the DO deficit was determined by these two independent processes.…”

Theoretical Principles of Aeration

“…This is essentially the same as Eq 4, developed by Adeney (5,6). For gas release the integrated equation is: (10) .…”

“…The mechanism of the transfer of gases between gas and liquid phases has been studied by Adeney and Becker (5,6); Whipple, Fair, and Whipple (7); Roe (8); Lewis and Whitman (9); Baylis (10); Nordell (11); Powell (12); and numerous other investigators (13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21) representing various fields of interest. A good bibliography containing references to much of the important work done prior to 1930 has been prepared by Baylis (10).…”

“…One set of experiments by Adeney and Becker (5,9) gave data which indicated a water film thickness of 0.001 ern for rising bubbles-approximately four times that of falling drops, using a comparable calculation method (9,10). Computations based on Ippen's recent experiments with small air bubbles (32) gave lower film thickness or resistance values (see Table 2, page 367).…”

“…Adeney (5,6), as a result of studies of bubble aeration, proposed the following equation to describe the solution of oxygen and nitrogen in water from fairly large bubbles:…”