Fresh Pond Gas

Fresh pond gas is more popular than ever in the scientific community. Here are three of the most compelling research reports about pond gas — fresh and otherwise — published during the past decade.

Bubbly Gas
“Evaluation of Concentration Field Formation in Bubbly Purification Pond Exhaust Gas,” I.R. Shreiber, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 24, no. 5, September 1997, pp. 673-81 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0735-1933(97)00053-5).

Fermentation and Fate
“Methane Fermentation, Submerged Gas Collection, and the Fate of Carbon in Advanced Integrated Wastewater Pond Systems,” F.B. Green, et al., Water Science and Technology, vol. 31, no. 12, 1995, pp. 55-65 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0273-1223(95)00492-6).

With or Without Sludge
“Nitrogen Removal From Waste Treatment Pond or Activated Sludge Plant Effluents With Free-Surface Wetlands,” A.J. Horne, Water Science and Technology, vol. 31, no. 12, 1995, pp (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0273-1223(95)00530-Z). 341-51.

(That’s an excerpt from the article “Fresh Pond Gas,” by Emil Filterbag,published in AIR 11:1.)