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Dynamics of Dissolved Oxygen and the Affecting Factors in Sediment of Polluted Urban Rivers under Aeration Treatment

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To demonstrate the variation and affecting factors of dissolved oxygen under different aeration strategies in polluted urban river sediment, simulation systems constructed with collected sediment and in situ overlaying water were aerated up or beneath the sediment-water interface 6 h day−1 for 15 days. The results showed that aeration greatly altered the spatial pattern of DO in overlying water regardless of the way of treatment. Within the first 5 min of aeration, DO in overlying water increases rapidly from 0.86–3.13 mg L−1 to the saturated range of 6.12–8.14 mg L−1. During the first 5 days, aeration to water costed 5 min to reach the highest DO, while aeration to sediment costed 30 min to reach a lower highest level of DO in overlaying water. Analysis showed that DO was significantly negatively correlated with NO2 −-N and COD Mn , suggesting that DO was synergistically consumed by biochemical processes of organic matter degradation and nitrification. Aeration to sediment (ES group) and aeration to water (EW group) differently influenced nitrification and organic matter degradation. After daily aeration treatment, nitrification was the main oxygen-depleting process in EW group, especially after the action of the second stage of nitrification, where organic matter was probably largely degraded during aeration. However, in ES group, DO was consumed by both organic matter oxidation and nitrification processes.

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Abbreviations

COD:

Chemical oxygen demand

DO a :

The time-weighted average of dissolved oxygen

DO max :

The peak of dissolved oxygen

DO r :

The maximal decline rate of dissolved oxygen

DTN:

Dissolved total nitrogen

EC:

Non-aeration

ES:

Aeration to sediment

EW:

Aeration to water

LOI:

Loss on ignition

SOD:

Sediment oxygen demand

WOD:

Water body oxygen demand

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Acknowledgments

This study was financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China (SBK201321353, BK20140922), the Special Fund for Environment Scientific Research in the Public Interest (201509038), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41403064), 2015-NIES-Specific Founds for Basic Scientific Research by Central Nonprofit Research Institutes, the Natural Science Foundation of Nantong City (BK2013058), and the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (14KJB610007).

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    1. School of Geography Science, Nantong University, Nantong, 226007, China

      Bo Liu, Ming Sheng, Lin-lin Ye & Xin-ting Wu

    2. Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Nanjing, 210042, China

      Wen-lin Wang

    3. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Ecological Construction, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023, China

      Bo Liu, Wen-lin Wang, Rui-ming Han, Xu Du, Xin-ting Wu & Guo-xiang Wang

    4. Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023, China

      Rui-ming Han & Guo-xiang Wang

    5. Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023, China

      Rui-ming Han

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    Liu, B., Wang, Wl., Han, Rm. et al. Dynamics of Dissolved Oxygen and the Affecting Factors in Sediment of Polluted Urban Rivers under Aeration Treatment. Water Air Soil Pollut 227, 172 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-016-2869-0

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