Pond Boss Forums AERATION Systems questions Pump application instead of aeration

Otter, here's some numbers for you to crunch. I sell Vertex systems, and I'm using their figures because that's what I have.

I'm not saying one system is better than the other, or that you can't do what you want to do with your system; I'm just throwing this out there for energy use comparisons. It's just more effecient to move water with air if the sole intent is to destratify a pond, and to get O2 into the water. If the pond is shallow, or there is a high oxygen demand, also look into surface agitators. If I was trying to keep high O2 levels in a pond, or had a pond where it had high O2 demands, and I wasn't concerned about warmer water (say a LMB/BG pond vs. a trout pond) I'd run both a bottom diffusion system AND a surface agitation system. If the pond was under 8' in depth, I'd concentrate on the surface agitation systems.

Here's the numbers:
I'll use a max depth of the pond at 10' because that equates to 10' of head pressure like you used in your example.

Using a 1/4 hp air compressor, with the diffusers set at 10' depth, a 2 disk diffuser station will move 3,200 GPM.