Integrated modelling as an analytical and optimisation tool for urban watershed management

Integrated modelling as an analytical and optimisation tool for urban watershed management

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Article ID: iaor2004623
Country: United States
Volume: 46
Issue: 6/7
Start Page Number: 141
End Page Number: 150
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Journal: Water Science and Technology
Authors: , , , , , ,
Keywords: urban affairs
Abstract:

In recent years numerical modelling has become a standard procedure to optimise urban wastewater systems design and operation. Since the models were developed for the subsystems independently, they did not support an integrated view to the operation of the sewer system, the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) and the receiving water. After pointing out the benefits of an integrated approach and the possible energy effects that may arise from analyzing the interactions across the interfaces, three examples of modelling case studies carried out in Germany are introduced. With these examples we intend to demonstrate the potential of integrated models, though their development cannot be considered completed. They are set up with different combinations of self-developed and commercially available software. The aim is to analyse fluxes though the total wastewater system or to integrate pollution-based control in the upstream direction, that is e.g. managing the combined water retention tanks as a function of state variables in the WWTP or the receiving water. Furthermore the interface between the sewer and the WWTP can be optimised by predictive simualations such that the combined water flow can be maximised according to the time-and dynamics-dependent state of the treatment processes.

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