Is Higher or Lower Dissolved Oxygen (DO) Better?

2025.02.17
Erun Environmental Protection

A common fatal mistake made by people who Google "Is higher or lower dissolved oxygen better?":

  • Aquatic farmers blindly pursue DO above 8mg/L, causing fish to suffer from bubble disease.

  • The DO pressure in the wastewater treatment plant of the brewery is below 0.5mg/L, which triggers the outbreak of sulfate-reducing bacteria.

Industry Confidential data: Optimal dissolved oxygen ranges for different sectors (with sensor selection strategy)

  1. Aquaculture: Not the higher the better

  • Freshwater fish seedling stage: must maintain 5.5-6.8 mg/L (below 5mg/L growth rate decreased by 60%)

  • Shrimp high density culture: DO should not be less than 4mg/L at night, but higher than 7mg/L during the day will cause excessive algal reproduction

  • Sensor selection trap: Avoid the use of 0-20mg/L range of general purpose sensors, choose 0-10mg/L special aquatic probe (accuracy ±0.1mg/L)

2. Sewage treatment: Dynamic control is king

  • Activated sludge method: aerobic phase 2-4 mg/L, anoxic phase strictly < 0.5 mg/L

  • Real-time adjustment tips: When the influent COD exceeds 800mg/L, DO needs to rise to more than 3.5mg/L within 45 minutes (delay will lead to sludge swelling)

  • Industrial sensor requirements: must be equipped with automatic cleaning brush (to prevent microbial film interference, maintenance period extended by 3 times)

3. Environmental monitoring: Use DO values to predict ecological crises

  • River health indicators:

    > 6.5 mg/L → risk of eutrophication (algal bloom warning)

    < 3 mg/L → Critical point of mass fish death

  • Lake stratification monitoring:When the DO difference between surface layer and bottom layer is > 4mg/L, artificial oxygenation should be started

3 Overlooked DO control cost black holes

"Overoxygenation" electricity rate trap

A California eel farm saved $18,700 in annual electricity bills by reducing DO from 7.2mg/L to 6.0mg/L (34% reduction in aeration system power consumption)

Hidden expenses for sensor calibration

Traditional polarized probes need to be calibrated twice a month (120 per time), while optical sensors can be calibrated once every 3 months (120 per year), and optical sensors can be calibrated once every 3 months (2,280 per year).

Legal fines are 20 times more expensive than equipment

The U.S. EPA penalty formula for excessive DO in wastewater treatment plants: fine =2,500+2,500+220/ per hour exceeding the standard

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