eWater Glossary: “biochemical oxygen demand”
Top Term
biochemical oxygen demand
Definition
A measure of the amount of oxygen needed by microorganisms to decompose organic matter in an effluent sample determined during a 5-day period in a reaction vessel at 20°C
Use for
BOD5
Source
(toolkit 20091023)
this term: "biochemical oxygen demand"
eWater Glossary Version: 1.0.1 — eWater CRC 2009-2011
