The design of efficient technical measures for the abatement of water pollution requires that wastewater discharge regulations are driven by receiving water objectives. However, such integrated water quality management is only possible when the impact to the aquatic ecosystem can be predicted quantitatively by means of integrated wastewater models. Typically, only a few types of wastewater discharge impacts are relevant for the state of the receiving water and, consequently, the structure of the model can be kept relatively simple when focusing on one of these impacts. The procedure of problem-oriented model selection is illustrated for three typical examples of acute water pollution, that is toxicity from un-ionized ammonia, hygienic hazard from pathogenic micro-organisms and oxygen depletion.
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December 01 1998
Requirements for integrated wastewater models - driven by receiving water objectives
Wolfgang Rauch;
Wolfgang Rauch
*Institute of Environmental Engineering, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 13, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Hans Aalderink;
Hans Aalderink
**Wageningen Agricultural University, NL-6700 Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Peter Krebs;
Peter Krebs
***EAWAG, Überlandstr. 133, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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Wolfgang Schilling;
Wolfgang Schilling
†NTNU, S.P. Andersons vei 5, N-7034 Trondheim, Norway
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Peter Vanrolleghem
Peter Vanrolleghem
‡BIOMATH Department, University Gent, Coupure links 653, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
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Water Sci Technol (1998) 38 (11): 97–104.
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Wolfgang Rauch, Hans Aalderink, Peter Krebs, Wolfgang Schilling, Peter Vanrolleghem; Requirements for integrated wastewater models - driven by receiving water objectives. Water Sci Technol 1 December 1998; 38 (11): 97–104. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.1998.0445
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