Modelling, Simulation and Control of Urban Wastewater Systems
Published on 20. February 2002
Book
Hardback
XVIII, 362 pages
978-1-85233-553-3 (ISBN)
Description
by Professor Poul Harremoes Environmental engineering has been a discipline dominated by empirical approaches to engineering. Historically speaking, the development of urban drainage structures was very successful on the basis of pure empiricism. Just think of the impressive structures built by the Romans long before the discipline of hydraulics came into being. The fact is that the Romans did not know much about the theories of hydraulics, which were discovered as late as the mid-1800s. However, with the Renaissance came a new era. Astronomy (Galileos) and basic physics (Newton) started the scientific revolution and in the mid-1800s Navier and Stokes developed the application of Newtons laws to hydrodynamics, and later, St. Venant the first basic physics description of the motion of water in open channels. The combination of basic physical understanding of the phenomena involved in the flow of water in pipes and the experience gained by "trial and error", the engineering approach to urban drainage improved the design and performance of the engineering drainage infrastructure. However, due to the mathematical complications of the basic equations, solutions were available only to quite simple cases of practical significance until the introduction of new principles of calculation made possible by computers and their ability to crunch numbers. Now even intricate hydraulic phenomena can be simulated with a reasonable degree of confidence that the simulations are in agreement with performance in practice, if the models are adequately calibrated with sample performance data.
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Edition
2002 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Illustrations
XVIII, 362 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
740 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85233-553-3 (9781852335533)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4471-0157-4
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Content
1. Introduction.- 1.1 Motivation of this Book.- 1.2 Outline of Chapters.- 2. The State of the Art.- 2.1 Components of the Urban Wastewater System: Basic Processes and Modelling Concepts.- 2.2 Impact of Storm Events on the Urban Wastewater System.- 2.3 Integrated Modelling Approaches.- 2.4 Operational Management of Wastewater Infrastructure.- 2.5 Mathematical Optimisation Techniques.- 2.6 Conclusion.- 3. Development of the Integrated Simulation and Optimisation Tool SYNOPSIS.- 3.1 Requirements on the Simulation Tool.- 3.2 Modules Simulating the Parts of the Urban Wastewater System.- 3.3 Assembling the Integrated Simulation Tool.- 3.4 Implementation of Control in SYNOPSIS.- 3.5 Optimisation Algorithms in SYNOPSIS.- 3.6 Summary: Overview of the Integrated Simulation and Optimisation Tool SYNOPSIS.- 4. Simulation of the Urban Wastewater System Using SYNOPSIS.- 4.1 Definition of a Case Study Site.- 4.2 Simulation of Dry-weather Flow.- 4.3 Simulation of a Rainfall Time Series.- 4.4 Analysis of the Control Devices of the Urban Wastewater System.- 4.5 Potential of Reduction in Simulation Time by Selective Simulation.- 5. Analysis of Control Scenarios by Simulation and Optimisation.- 5.1 Definitions and Methodology.- 5.2 Analysis of Strategy Parameters - an Example.- 5.3 A Top-down Approach to the Definition of Control Strategies.- 5.4 A Bottom-up Approach to the Definition of Control Strategies.- 5.5 Integrated Versus Local Control.- 5.6 Further Aspects.- 6. Conclusions and Further Research.- 6.1 Summary.- 6.2 Suggestions for Further Research.- Appendix A. Overview of Existing Software.- A.1 Software for Simulation of Sewer Systems.- A.2 Software for Simulation of Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment Plants.- A.3 Software for Simulation of Rivers.- Appendix B. Parameters ofthe Treatment Plant Model.- Appendix C. Rainfall Data Used in This Study.- Appendix D. Detailed Results of Optimisation Runs Presented in Chapter 5.- References.