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Abstract- The biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) is the amount of oxygen in mg/L required to stabilize polluted water
completely by means of an aerobic process. The reactions occur in the BOD bottle in laboratory as well as in streams in field
and are very complex. The BOD models can be the first order, the second order, the half order, or a mixture of these. This
paper pertains to the evaluation of the First order and Second order BOD models. In addition, the process of computation of
the BOD rate constant k and ultimate BOD L0 using the first order as well as the second order BOD models is also presented
in this paper. A solution to the second order equation is presented. Both equations are applied to experimental data and the
results are compared.
Keywords- Biochemical oxygen demand, First order, Second order, BOD models.
I. INTRODUCTION
Biochemical oxygen demand is the amount of oxygen
required for the micro-organisms to carry out
biological decomposition of dissolved solids or
organic matter in the wastewater under aerobic
conditions and at standard temperature. The BOD is
usually proportional to the amount of organic matter
present in a wastewater and, therefore, is a measure of
the strength of the waste.
II.
ESTIMATION
PARAMETERS
OF
BOD
KINETIC
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(10)
Where, n = Number of data points; and
t = Time interval between 2 consecutive data.
(22)
Where,
yoi = observed (experimental) values;
= average of observed (experimental)
values;
yci = calculated values of each fitting
procedure;
p = number of parameters; and
n = number of data points.
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0
3.0
0
3.8
6
4.7
4
5.1
4
6.8
6
7.7
4
2
3
4
5
6
7
Time, days
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
112.
0
153.
0
163.
0
176.
0
192.
0
200.
0
0
190.
0
250.
0
305.
0
350.
0
380.
0
400.
0
12.7
0
14.8
0
15.4
0
17.0
0
18.0
0
19.9
0
(b)
BOD in mg/L for data number
VII
VIII
IX
X
VI
1.0
16.3
27.30
10.2
73.6
2
8
0
2.7
23.7
55.90
16.8
117.
0
3
0
0
3.8
27.3
83.20
22.2
155.
0
0
0
6
4.0
30.4
106.6
28.2
162.
0
5
0
0
6
4.4
35.7
140.4
36.6
175.
2
0
0
0
0
4.8
36.7
154.7
37.5
183.
0
5
0
0
0
6.5
37.8
183.3
38.2
188.
6
0
0
0
0
t2
1
4
9
16
25
36
49
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The values of MSC for the first order BOD model and
the second order BOD model were calculated using
Eqs. (22) Results for all the ten BOD data are
presented in Table 5.
CONCLUSIONS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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